Atletico Madrid have escalated their row with Barcelona over forward Julian Alvarez with a series of fake transfer rumour posts on social media, including pretending to offer Bad Bunny tickets in exchange for Lamine Yamal.Atletico edited photos of Barcelona players Yamal, Pedri and Raphinha into Atletico shirts and accompanied these with the caption: “Don’t believe everything you see, especially if it’s related to Barca”The Athletic reported on Thursday that Barcelona are in talks over a deal for Alvarez and are preparing a formal offer of around €100million ($116m; £87m). Atletico do not want to sell the 26-year-old Argentina international.Atletico made the transfer saga public on Friday, firstly with a post on X that read: “In a few minutes, we will publish a statement about a relevant matter that is generating numerous pieces of disinformation.”This was followed by a post with Barcelona forward Yamal edited into an Atletico shirt and captioned “Breaking, Here We Go” — a reference to the catchphrase of transfer specialist Fabrizio Romano.Atletico’s post read: “We have sent a fax to 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’.”This post was followed by a similarly edited photo of Barcelona midfielder Gavi, accompanied by the caption: “For this second offer we’ve had a problem, we’ve run out of tickets for tomorrow’s concert, so we improve the previous proposal with 6 for the one on Sunday.”A third photo of Barcelona forward Raphinha followed, with the caption: “And to complete the 3×1, we’ve got carried away and are going all out: the player arrives on loan for a season and in exchange we loan out Tom Ford and Smith with no option to buy. An offer impossible to refuse.”