There are reports that other than Barcelona, Arsenal and Chelsea are now Looking to signing the young winger Nico Williams in this summer transfer window.
Arsenal and Chelsea are ready to fight for the Athletic Bilbao winger Nico Williams after watching his performance in the Euro 2024. Bilbao is asking a price of €58m for the player.
Williams demand has skyrocketed after his last season’s performance and his current performance in Euro 2024. This forced Arsenal and Chelsea to fight for the player and Barcelona might loose the fight because of their financial issues the club is currently facing.
Arsenal and Chelsea wants to sign Athletic Bilbao’s young winger
According to some reputed and trusted journalists have reported that Gunners have made Williams as their priority for this summer transfer window. They are looking to improve their attacking side and wants to have different attacking options, so that it can used in different situations.
But it is not easy to sign the player as the player have a high release clause and the situation is that, the release clause amount needs to be paid in full upfront, you cannot pay the amount latter or cannot pay it in adown payment situation.
But it might be difficult for the Gunners to pay the whole amount as before signing the winger as they have to offload some players in order to sign the new players, so that they can remain inside the rules of FPP and also they does not have any space in the squad for the player.
On the other side, Chelsea have been keeping tabs on the winger for quite some time now, and secretly working for the transfer to happen. They are confident that player will choose them and they are ware that Barcelona is a club with whom they are fighting but they they think that they can pay more than Barcelona to both the player and the club.
There are some rumors that Nico Williams wants to stay in La Liga but both Arsenal and Chelsea are convince that they can convince Williams to leave La Liga and join the Premier League.
Barcelona are all in to sign Nico Williams
Barcelona have a very great and deep history and they have a very strong interest to sign Williams in this summer transfer window. But there are financial issues that could force them not to make a move for the player, Joan Laporta the president of football club Barcelona have mentioned in many interviews that Barcelona is capable of signing players like Williams financially.
However, there are reports from some spanish sources which are very close to Barcelona’s dressing room stats, there are some players who are not happy as the club are looking to sign new players but they have not yet resolved their issues with La Liga for this season because of current contract complications and salary issues. Situation is currently calm related to Williams transfer as there are some hopes that player might stay at Bilbao this season and then move to Barca.
Barca’s interest in Williams got more strong after watching his performance in the Euros 2024 and watching him play with other Barcelona players and specially his partnership with Barca’s forward Lamine Yamal, their partnership is the main reason that Spain won the Euros and Barca wants to implement the same at the club that make their club’s attack stronger for not only this season but also in the future.
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