Barcelona has received a fresh boost in their pursuit of Nico Williams, because they want to put together to put together the money to sign the Athletic Club wing player. The Blaugrana decided to go after Williams again after he made it clear that the Catalan giants were his priority this summer.
In recent months, the 22-year-old has been interested in Arsenal and Chelsea, who would have been more than able to pay his release clause of € 58 million, while Barcelona investigated alternative options. However, the roles have been reversed last week, with the Premier League duo now looking elsewhere. Nevertheless, Bayern Munich has appeared as the strongest candidate for his signature in recent weeks.
Bayern had opened conversations with Williams and received a positive first reaction, but their efforts to sign him were made standby after they had been informed, he would give priority to a move to Barcelona. Florian Plettenberg from Sky Sports has now revealed that Bayern has moved to try to intervene in a move to Barcelona, ​​making a second approach. That happened in the last 48 hours, but Williams has rejected the approach while he continues to wait for a deal to Barcelona.
Barcelona has already reached an agreement with Williams on personal conditions and will sign a six -year -old deal with the Blaugrana if they activate his release clause. He will earn around € 7 million per season, with bonuses on top of that figure.
The most important question is not so much whether Barcelona can get the money together to sign Williams, but whether they can find the space in their salary limit to register him. It seems that Barcelona is about to a deal that would help them enormously in that respect, but the feeling is that they also deviate from their team to make it happen.