Manchester City have already added Julián Álvarez to its website

Julian Alvarez will play in City of Manchester from the middle of the year: although there are still 69 days left for the English club to have the contractual possibility of pick up In exchange for enforcing a clause, it’s a fact that Cordovan will join Citizens for the next preseason. But in case further proof of the coming exodus is needed, MCFC added Cordovan as part of the squad on its official site.

Entering the “teams” tab of the web site City of Manchester you can see the makeup of the staff Pep Guardiola is available. There are 22 players part of the standard calls as well as three players on loan: Kosovar goalkeeper Arijanet Muric (currently at Adana Demirspor in Turkey), Dutch defender Philippe Sandler (at Feyenoord) and Alvarez himself.

Now, the big difference between Julián’s case and that of Muric and Sandler is that in his case he doesn’t have a number assigned for next season. And there is some logic: Although the biography states that the player signed his contract in January 2022 and he is on loan at River, he has not yet been officially shown at Ethad Stadium in Manchester.

However, the fact that the striker appears as a member of the squad -a template in English- is a sign itself of what Guardiola expects in the podcast of Ole.

“If we accept him, it’s up to us to be with him. There’s a key question: we believe he’s a player for us. Julián smells like a goal and goals are worth the money. At City they see him as an opportunity for the future, next preseason we will have him with us, ”the City coach hoped.

“I see him on TV but I want to see him on the pitch with his teammates, what we want him to do … If we weren’t convinced we wouldn’t have bought it. We want yes or no. The reports we have are exceptional. How he moves in short space and how he defines is something that is very hard to find, ”Pep added on March 9th.

Guardiola’s declarations was somehow endorsed by Jorge Brito. After holding a meeting in Madrid in April with Ferrán Soriano (executive director of MCFC), Txiki Bergistain (Football Director), Joan Patxi and Omar Berrada (CEO of CG), the president announced that “From a formal point of view, they will tell us about the date, but from the gesture and conversation, it all indicates that Julián will be leaving in the middle of the year”.

The clause that allows the City to recover Julián

In the purchase agreement between the City and River a repechage clause was established allowing the English club to interrupt the assignment originally scheduled until December. The documents empowered the MCFC to withdraw it by payment from July 7 (that is, days after the second leg of the Libertadores round of 16). the total amount of 1.5 million euros.

Manchester City invested US $ 24,241,457 in signing Álvarez. The river will receive US $ 19,246,890 (17 million euros). And in the treasury, after all, Initially, there was still US $ 18,246,890 left due to the agreement where 15% of the pass was transferred to Atalaya de Córdoba club US $ 1,000,000 was set as the ceiling for that part of the economic rights.