Manchester Metropolis and Atlético Madrid have agreed to a deal for striker Julián Álvarez, a supply informed ESPN.
The LaLiga aspect are set to pay as much as €95 million ($104m) for the Argentina striker. Round €75m ($82m) will likely be due up entrance with one other €20m ($22m) in performance-based add-ons.
It represents Metropolis’s report departure and an enormous revenue on the €17m they paid for Álvarez’s rights when he arrived from River Plate in January 2022.
Sources informed ESPN that Álvarez has not but agreed to private phrases with Atlético, however it’s understood to be a formality.
Metropolis, in line with a supply, had been reluctant to let the 24-year-old go away after he scored 36 targets in 103 video games over two years and helped the membership win the treble in 2023 and one other Premier League title final season.
Nevertheless, with Álvarez’s prospects of changing Erling Haaland as Pep Guardiola’s first-choice striker slim and eager to seek out common soccer elsewhere, Metropolis are happy they’ve negotiated an excellent deal for the 2022 World Cup winner.
Metropolis additionally signed Brazil winger Savinho in July however had been anticipating an in any other case quiet summer season window.
Nevertheless, with Álvarez set to depart, they must resolve whether or not to seek out one other understudy for Haaland. The Norway striker missed two months of final season due to damage, permitting Álvarez to make 54 appearances in all competitions.
Álvarez failed to seem in solely two of Metropolis’s 38 Premier League video games, scoring 11 league targets.
Info from ESPN’s Rodrigo Faez contributed to this report.
