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As the summer transfer window reaches its final days, the saga involving FC Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, and Julian Alvarez is seeing new developments with every passing day. The latest developments have seen the Argentine reject a move to the Premier League side Arsenal, despite the Colchoneros reportedly having accepted an offer from them for his sale. Meanwhile, the Atletico Madrid supporters showed their anger towards the player for having publicly asked for a move away from the club by putting up signs against him at the club facilities. The CEO of the Madrid club, Gil Marin, also once again appeared in an interview and made it clear that the star forward is not for sale. During this interview, the Atletico official also took aim at Alvarez’s agent, Fernando Hidalgo, as he commented: “We’re going to help Julián and continue looking after him so that he can give us his full potential, because we need him to keep competing among the biggest clubs in Europe. We must understand that Julián hasn’t had the best advisers around him regarding his professional career in recent months.” Although he did not directly name Hidalgo, reports claim Marin’s comments were aimed mainly at him. As Mundo Deportivo has reported, the agent himself responded to these comments a few hours later, as he took to his social media to publish the following message: “Never ask a liar why he lied. To explain it, he would have to lie again.” Although Hidalgo also did not mention Gil Marin or anyone else from Atletico directly, his message is also being interpreted as a response to the Atletico CEO. Furthermore, his quote appeared with a football pitch in the background, leaving little doubt about where his comments were directed. Meanwhile, Barcelona would be anxiously observing any developments taking place between Julian Alvarez and Atletico Madrid, because there are only a few days left in the summer transfer window, and Hansi Flick is still without a natural first team center-forward. Thus, they will have to make a decision on whether they will go to the very end with Alvarez or start working on another operation to give the German coach a goalscorer going into the next season.