In the Red Fury jersey, they are dominant on the wings, and Barcelona dreams of seeing Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams as a tandem in club football.Barca got a future star in Yamal and now wants to add a teammate from the national team and build the future around them. Williams doesn’t mind either, but the problem is Barca’s financial situation.”Economically speaking, we can afford to bring in Nico Williams,” Barca president Joan Laporta said recently.It is not nice to say that someone is lying, but the facts are that Laporta has said similar things before that do not correspond to the truth. Barcelona has huge financial problems and it’s no wonder they haven’t brought in any reinforcements this summer. And not even free, as there have been most of them in the last few years.##NAJAVA_MECA_8208615##Williams in Bilbao has a buyout clause of 58,000,000 euros, and that is the only price. There is no discount. These things are not negotiated with the Basques, who are financially one of the healthiest clubs in Europe. They don’t even like to negotiate the dynamics of the payment, which is a special circle of hell for Barcelona, which stretches every possible purchase over as many instalments and as long as possible.The prerequisite for the purchase of Williams is that Barcelona sell the Brazilian winger Raphinha and make money from his transfer. The problem is that there is no specific interest in Raphinha and that only the Saudis are mentioned as a realistic option.Even if they resolve those issues and activate the buyout clause, Barca remain in contention for Williams’ signature with competition from Chelsea, Liverpool and Paris Saint-Germain. Well, there is already good news for the fans of the Catalan giants.🚨 Barcelona have agreed a deal in principle on personal terms with Athletic Bilbao’s 21-year-old forward Nico Williams. (Source: @Sport) pic.twitter.com/jZQ1VrKLuk— Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) July 11, 2024 Local Sport writes that Barcelona has a verbal agreement with Nico and that he is ready to reject more lucrative offers from other clubs and move to Barcelona. He has the desire to play together with Yamal, Pedri and Torres with whom he is a teammate and friend from the national team. In the previous days, Barcelona negotiated with his agent Félix Tainta and received the green light to find the money and resolve the purchase issue with Bilbao.Now Laporta only needs to magically come up with 58,000,000 euros. And pay them off at once. In previous years, some of their transfers failed because Barca did not have the money they promised. And Athletic Bilbao is not exactly a club that can be negotiated indefinitely. Someone will have to be sacrificed at Barca in the coming days…
