Nico Williams en la victoria de España sobre Italia

LONDONIANS CONSIDER HIM VERY EXPENSIVE

One less rival for FC Barcelona: Chelsea withdraws from the 'bid' for Nico Williams

Published:25/06/2024 - 17:59h

Updated:26/06/2024 - 04:38h

The path could be 'cleared' for Barça to close the signing of Nico Williams. Chelsea, one of the main interested parties in the winger, would have rejected his arrival as they considered his signing to be very expensive.

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Nico Williams is one of the proper names of the market veraniego of the FC Barcelona. The footballer of the Athletic Club of Bilbao is one of the big candidates to reinforce the attack of the team of Hansi Flick, that is in research of an extreme that him of the jump of definite quality to the forward and form a trident 'lethal' beside Robert Lewandowski and Lamine Yamal.

However, the Barcelona entity is not alone in the 'career' by the player. Williams is very valued in the Premier League, where some members of the 'big six' would be more than interested in doing with his services. The Liverpool would have him in looks it for apuntalar his front of attack, whereas in London, the Arsenal and Chelsea sounded like two of the big competitors of the Barça in the 'bidding'.

In this sense, the specialist in signings, Fabrizio Romano, has informed that the 'blues' would have gone down of of the list of interested of the international with the Spanish selection. According to the Italian journalist, in Stanford Bridge had him in his diary from the past summer, but would have desestimado his arrival during present him window estival when considering that his traspaso is too costly.

The clause of rescission of the attacker would be valuada in 58 million euros, to which it would be necessary to add the variables. An operation with a too elevated value for the 'pensionados', that after starring a pair of markets of signings with incorporations considerably expensive, look for to balance his accounts and show more 'comedidos' in his costs.

His wage, another problem

In addition to the high price of his transfer, the wage of the footballer would be another problem for the clubs interested in his services. The navarro earns some emolumentos that rondan the 10 million gross euros by season (near of €5m net), by what his index card is costly for the pretences of clubs like the Barça and Chelsea, that find increasingly 'escolllos' to the hour to assume the operation of Nico.

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