Atletico mock Barca's Alvarez move with joke Yamal offer

Atletico mock Barca's Alvarez move with joke Yamal offerImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Barcelona want to sign Julian AlvarezByKatie FalkinghamBBC Sport Senior JournalistPublished3 minutes agoBad Bunny tickets, an ABC subscription and a bag of sunflower seeds. In exchange? How about Lamine Yamal.Atletico Madrid aimed a tongue-in-cheek dig at La Liga rivals Barcelona over their "smear campaign" in pursuit of Julian Alvarez.According to BBC Sport columnist Guillem Balague, Barca have opened talks to sign the Argentine forward, with an agreement in place for the 26-year-old.But, as reported on Thursday, Atletico are likely to turn down the 90m euros (£77.9m) Barca are expected to offer - and so the Madrid club's barrage of social media posts on Friday evening proved.First, they laid out their proposal for 18-year-old Spain star Yamal."We have sent a fax to FC Barcelona 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 'announce'," they wrote.More 'approaches' were made for other players too - all featuring AI-generated images of them in an Atleti shirt. For Spain midfielder Pedri, the concert offering was increased to six tickets for Sunday's gig at the club's Riyadh Air Metropolitano Stadium, before bidding "loan for a season and in exchange we loan out Tom Ford and Smith with no option to buy" for Brazil winger Raphinha.By 'Tom Ford and Smith', the club were referring to a gaffe made by Atleti president Enrique Cerezo earlier in the year when he named both as players for his side."An offer impossible to refuse," they wrote.The flurry of posts came in just over an hour and quickly went viral, going into more than 55 million X account feeds.The popularity was undoubtedly driven by the surprise - it is highly unusual for a club to make such sati...