{"id":486151,"date":"2024-08-09T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486151"},"modified":"2024-08-09T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T18:04:00","slug":"guardiola-reveals-the-sky-blues-forced-to-accept-alvarezs-offer","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/guardiola-reveals-the-sky-blues-forced-to-accept-alvarezs-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola reveals the Sky Blues forced to accept Alvarez&#8217;s offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola has shared that the Sky Blues had no choice but to accept Atl\u00e9tico Madrid&#8217;s bid for Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez because he shared with the team he wants to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Julian is set to play for the Madrid team for a fee which could rise to almost 105 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentinian forward has been a crucial footballer for Manchester City for the past 2 seasons, but Pep shared the team was not in a position to stop the transfer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like to tell footballers what they have to do,&#8221; the Sky Blues head coach revealed today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Deals are nice, but they can be broken. If you are not happy, why should you remain with our group?<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola added that Alvarez is appreciated by the Sky Blues for his behavior but added that if a player chooses to try something new, he will not stop him.<\/p>\n<p>Julian has netted 36 goals in 103 matches since his transfer from River Plate 2 years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd35\ud83d\udc40 Guardiola on replacement for Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez: \u201cWe will see, we are discussing internally about it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could happen or it could not happen, we will consider and see what to do\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EXseSbChIz\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EXseSbChIz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1821888376389198208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola has shared that the Sky Blues had no choice but to accept Atl\u00e9tico Madrid&#8217;s bid for Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez because he shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":486152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17134,17183,17412,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[22477,18121,17886,677],"acf":{"announce":"Pep claimed that Manchester City had to accept Julian\u2019s offer.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486153,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486151\/revisions\/486153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486151"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486151"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}