The thing about him is he's the anti-Haaland - he offers much more in general play and makes other players look better, while only getting decent/average stats himself. This can be overblown about him too though as he does have poor spells of form where he doesn't enable others either.
He's clearly a better 'footballer' than Haaland, but Haaland is the bigger goalscorer by a mile and in this hyper stats era he will never get in the team consistently over Haaland. Even Guardiola who values players for what they do outside of stats knows that Haaland is far too superior a goalscorer to Alvarez for him to risk it. It isn't a Messi situation where Messi was the best goalscorer, playmaker, passer and dribbler in the world. In a head on comparison and fight positionally, Guardiola will choose the bigger goalscorer over the more rounded player when the difference in goalscoring prowess is as significant as it is here.
I do rate him though in general. He's a quality player. But if you're looking for a guy to score plenty of goals I don't think he's the man. But he can make the team perform better when he's on form. Haaland is an individual whereas Alvarez is a team player.
