Julian Alvarez has ended up staying at Atletico despite pushing to leave, and his manager has to pick up the pieces.If you enjoy CaughtOffside coverage and want to see more of it, add us as a preferred source on Google to make us a favourite and see more of our content.Diego Simeone has just taken his press conference ahead of Atletico Madrid’s opening game in La Liga, and of course the talk was all about the big saga of the summer at his club – Argentina forward Julian Alvarez’s push to join Barcelona.The coach insisted that everything will continued as normal, and made an attempt to move the story on, maintaining that the former Man City man would be a key player for him this year.“Julián Alvarez will be in the squad tomorrow,” Simeone insisted in his press conference today.“For me, Julián is an extremely important player for us to achieve our objectives, As long as he’s with the team, I’m going to look after him.”Simeone tells fans to back their star despite transfer talkThat wasn’t all. The Atletico coach also had to address concerns about how the fans would react to Alvarez’s situation after forward made it clear he wanted to leave.“I respect our fans, I always have, but I don’t agree with insults or abuse,” the manager said.He finished by pointing out the the word of Miguel Angel Cerezo, club president, was final, and that the best thing to do was for fans to accept Alvarez back for the good of the team and their season to come:“Every word is being scrutinised by people waiting to create conflict and uncertainty. There is no uncertainty. Miguel was very clear. He is our player and we need him.”We will see whether the fans agree tomorrow.The post Diego Simeone makes Atletico’s stance on Julian Alvarez very clear appeared first on CaughtOffside.