Cerezo: “Julián Álvarez has a contract and is not going to leave until I tell him he can”

The president of Atlético de Madrid, Enrique Cerezo, assured this Wednesday that the Argentine striker Julián Álvarez “has a contract and has many years left” with the club, so he will not leave the entity “until” the leader tells him that he can leave”, at the same time that he celebrated that the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) recognized the referee’s error in last Saturday’s match by not sending off Gerard Martín, although he regretted that no one going to compensate for it.

“You already know what my opinion of the VAR is, if you want I will repeat it, but I don’t think it is necessary. I think it is very good that the VAR says that they have made a mistake, but who compensates us for the mistake,” said Cerezo before lunch with the Catalan board before the duel against FC Barcelona in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals.

About this confrontation, Cerezo confessed that he has a “good feeling”, but that anything can happen. “You already know how all the games are, you can win or lose or draw. So we will have to wait until eleven to see what has happened,” he said, confessing that he will miss Joan Laporta, recently re-elected ‘culer’ president, but not yet officially in office, because “he is a good friend, a great person and a good president.”

“Atlético is risking prestige and then it is a title that we want much more than any other team. The key to playing well and scoring goals,” said the Colchonero president, who once again insisted that Argentine striker Julián Álvarez, a possible Blaugrana target, “has a contract with Atlético de Madrid.”

“If a player has a contract with a team and has many years left on his contract with that team, tell me what can happen. I am God and until I tell him he can leave, he will not leave,” Cerezo stated.

Regarding the words of praise in the previous Argentine coach Diego Pablo Simeone towards the Frenchman Antoine Griezmann, who at the end of the season will leave the mattress entity, the president of Atlético thinks “exactly the same”, although he will say goodbye to the red and white ‘7’ “on the day he leaves permanently, which will be in a few months.”

Finally, asked about the statements of the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, of wanting to aspire to the presidency of the club, Cerezo was blunt and ironic: “It is enough to be mayor of Madrid to get into this mess.”