Atletico Madrid sign Alvarez for £81m from Man City

Atletico Madrid person completed nan £81.5m signing of Manchester City striker Julian Alvarez on a six-year deal.

Diego Simeone's Spanish broadside will salary an first £64.4m (75m euros) pinch a further £17.1m (20m euros) successful imaginable add-ons for nan Argentina striker.

The 24-year-old's departure is a grounds waste for City, eclipsing nan £50m they received from Chelsea for Raheem Sterling successful 2022.

They paid Argentine broadside River Plate £14.1m for Alvarez in January 2022.

Alvarez said City - wherever he won six awesome trophies during his two-year enactment - will ever "have a typical place" successful his heart.

“Today I opportunity goodbye to this astonishing club, pinch a batch of emotion," he said.

"These person been 2 very typical years. During this time, I person grown and learnt a batch - some arsenic a subordinate and arsenic a person."

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