{"id":517488,"date":"2026-09-04T09:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=517488"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:27:17","slug":"simeone-welcomes-alvarez-back-to-atletico-madrid-group","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/simeone-welcomes-alvarez-back-to-atletico-madrid-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Simeone welcomes Alvarez back to Atletico Madrid group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Alvarez is set to make his return to Atletico Madrid as he is in the group for tomorrow\u2019s LaLiga game after a turbulent period defined by a failed attempt to force a move to Barca. The Argentinian striker has been reintegrated into Diego Simeone&#8217;s plans after missing significant training time and the team\u2019s recent league match vs. Seville.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico Madrid head coach revealed that Julian will be featured in the club squad for the match vs. Athletic Club tomorrow. Alvarez is back after a dramatic few weeks in which the Argentinian wanted to leave the team to join Barcelona. Still, in the end, Atletico Madrid&#8217;s president blocked any bid from the Catalan side, while Arsenal also wanted him. Still, the forward declined that offer and will remain in the Spanish capital.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Simeone shared that Alvarez will be back in the squad and that he hopes that will be a lesson for the Argentinian: \u201cJulian will be in the group for the clash vs. Athletic. Alvarez is training well, and we expect that he will return to optimal form as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A potentially awkward return \ud83d\ude2c<\/p>\n<p>Diego Simeone has confirmed that Julian Alvarez will return to Atletico Madrid&#39;s squad this weekend after his failed attempt to leave \ud83d\udd1c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WLl8Rk2zhx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WLl8Rk2zhx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBCMOTD\/status\/2095847439874056396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">September 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Alvarez is set to make his return to Atletico Madrid as he is in the group for tomorrow\u2019s LaLiga game after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":517489,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18986,17134],"news_category":[137,14235],"gn_keywords":[18987,22477],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Diego supports Julian after his failed transfer.","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\/517488"}],"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=517488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517490,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517488\/revisions\/517490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517488"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=517488"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=517488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}