Atlético Madrid make ‘public offer’ to sign Lamine Yamal

Atlético Madrid have had enough of everything related to the Julián Alvarez saga. This Thursday, the club already admitted that they are “fed up with months and months of lies”, and accused FC Barcelona of having a “small-club mentality”. Now they have posted a tweet mocking Barça, with a reference to Lamine Yamal:

HERE WE GO! We have sent a fax to @FCBarcelona_es with our transfer offer: 4 tickets for tomorrow’s Bad Bunny concert, an annual subscription to ABC, and a bag of sunflower seeds. We eagerly await the response to prepare the ‘announcement’."

There is also an offer for Pedri: “HERE WE GO! For this second offer we’ve had a problem, we’ve run out of tickets for tomorrow’s concert, so we will improve the previous proposal with 6 for the one on Sunday.”

And finally, there is an offer for Raphinha, recalling that slip-up by Enrique Cerezo before the UEFA Champions League tie: “HERE WE GO! And to complete the 3x1, we’ve gotten all carried away and we’re going all in: the player arrives on loan for a season and in exchange we loan out Tom Ford and Smith with no option to buy. An offer impossible to refuse.”

Atlético Madrid even dressed Lamine Yamal, the FC Barcelona star, in an Atlético shirt through an AI-generated image edit, and did the same with Pedri and Raphinha. The club from the Metropolitano is fed up with the attitude of the Catalan club and its surrounding media voices, whom they believe act as though Barça should dictate everything.

They finished with this: “No, Atlético de Madrid would never do something like that. However, in recent months, we’ve been suffering a smear campaign against one of our players. Leaked information with ulterior motives, ‘fake news,’ constant disrespect, the culé version of the propaganda machine inventing little stories, calls before direct matchups... But of course, it wouldn’t occur to us either to have the referees’ vice president on our payroll or to resort to political favors to register players. RESPECT and VALUES.

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