There was no noise about Manchester City’s pursuit of River Plate’s prodigious young striker, Julian Alvarez.
When it became clear that his agent was travelling to Manchester this month, the propagators of what masquerades as transfer window ‘news’ assumed that Old Trafford was the destination.
Some brief amusement was then taken in a 2020 Argentinian radio interview Alvarez gave, in which he said he played for City on the FIFA video game. And then it was announced that he’s signed for that club.
It says everything about the way City’s player acquisition system works that they’d been following Alvarez for some time.