Argentine striker Julián Álvarez has barely played two pre-season games with Manchester City and his coach Pep Guardiola has already shown how fascinated he is with his signing and has showered him with praise, highlighting his goalscoring instinct.
“With Julián (Álvarez) we have not made a mistake. We have verified that he is a fantastic boy. He is absolutely a team player and he has a goal, he has the goal between his eyebrows”, Guardiola said in the press conference prior to the Community Shield against Liverpool.
Likewise, the Spanish coach highlighted all the experience that the player acquired at River Plate and stated that he hopes to help him continue to grow. “We are going to take advantage of all the work he has done with Gallardo and hopefully we can add some things to his game, that he can grow and be happy here.”
The former River Plate player has played a total of 70 minutes between the matches against Club América from Mexico and Bayern Munich, which earned him the confidence of Guardiola and profile to play his first official match in the Community Shield.
The ‘Spider’ as the player is known in his native Argentina, arrives to fill the vacancy left by the Brazilian Gabriel Jesús and with the intention of being able to have enough minutes to put together a lethal duo with the Norwegian Erling Haaland, who was the star signing of Manchester City this summer.
At 29 years old, the attacker has already played 122 games with River Plate in which he scored 54 goals between 2018 Y 2022. Said performance led him to be summoned to the ‘Albiceleste’ team, with which he has participated in nine commitments scoring one goal.