Real Madrid are the most recent membership to face mockery from Atletico Madrid after a £129million bid was rejected by their rivals for Julian Alvarez.
Actual made a public assertion on Tuesday saying a €150m bid for striker Alvarez had been made and turned down, with Barcelona additionally reportedly seeing a bid not too long ago rebuffed by Atleti.
Simply minutes after Actual’s public assertion concerning their Alvarez curiosity, Atletico launched a series of posts on X mocking their rivals, together with suggesting the Pope was an Ateltico fan and suggesting they’re “even funnier than Barcelona” with their makes an attempt to land the Argentine.
“1. Your video of the Pope should have reduce off proper the place he stated that he’s additionally an Atleti fan.
“2. You appear to have confused politeness with gratitude, however so there is no such thing as a doubt: We’re grateful to you for completely nothing.
“3. We’re neither reviewing presents for Julián nor even contemplating them.
“4. How may we not get alongside effectively when you find yourself even funnier than @FCBarcelona_es.”
A follow-up submit stated: “P.S. Benefiting from the great relationship together with your new president, let’s see if you happen to cease “stealing” gamers from our Academy. Thanks lots, @realmadrid!”
Barcelona additionally mocked over Alvarez makes an attempt
It comes after Atletico jokingly posted a switch provide for Barcelona winger Lamine Yamal following studies of their bid for Alvarez final week.
The membership claimed that they had despatched a proposal consisting of 4 tickets to a Dangerous Bunny live performance, an annual newspaper subscription and a bag of sunflower seeds in change for the Spain worldwide.
The submit was accompanied by a mock switch announcement and fashioned a part of a string of satirical messages geared toward Barcelona, creating photos of Barca gamers like Yamal, Pedri and Raphinha all sporting crimson and white Atleti shirts.
Atletico Madrid’s very public rebuttal of Spain’s two greatest golf equipment has clearly gone down very effectively on social media, with Tuesday’s garnering 10s of tens of millions of views already.
Their public criticism of Barcelona obtained loads of curiosity, and so they have now proven they’re ready to tackle their metropolis neighbours as they appear to maintain maintain of star striker Alvarez.
Alvarez joined Atletico from Manchester Metropolis in 2024 for £81m, with the Argentine scoring 49 targets in 106 video games since.
