The new 'barter' that FC Barcelona is thinking about to reduce the price of Mikel Merino

Once finalised the Eurocopa, the FC Barcelona has set up the 'machinery' to concretise the signing of Nico Williams. The extreme is the big favourite of Hansi Flick and Joan Laporta, by what from the club advance in his traspaso and trust that they will be able to tackle the signing. In parallel, from the offices blaugranas work in the incorporation of a mediocampista and, as 'SPORT', Mikel Merino is the name that leads the list of candidates, although to day of today have not produced significant movements.

With the return to the rule 1/1 and the contracting of the footballer of the Athletic Club of Bilbao like priorities, the operation of the player of the Real Sociedad awaits in the recámara. The agreement of the midfield player with the 'txuri-urdin' expires in 2025 and everything aims to that will abandon Anoeta this summer, by what the donostiarras will have to access to a traspaso 'low cost'.

Merino finish to initiate his holidays after concluding his participation in the Eurocopa 2024, with the Arsenal and the Athletic of Madrid also 'bidding' for doing with his services. The surroundings of the player already knows the interest of the Barça, but does not seem that his future go to resolve in the next days and probably his case solve in the straight final of the sale estival.

In the meantime, the Barcelona entity studies some ways of 'recess' the price of his operation, which rondaría, like minimum, the 25 million euros in fixed concepts. In this sense, Ansu Fati presented like alternative to concretise a 'barter', but the exit of Robin Him Normand with destination to the Cívitas Metropolitan causes that in San Sebastián need the arrival of a central, position in which the culés have a 'overbooking' important and could 'sacrifice' an effective for abaratar the price of the signing.

The possible candidates of the club

Clément Lenglet, Eric García, Iñigo Martínez or even Mika Faye could fit in the diagram of Imanol Bailiff, by what one of these would be the 'daminificado' of the arrival of Merino to the City Condal. The problem of the French is his high index card, which hardly can be assumed by the Real. On the other hand, the situation of the others three in the group of Hansi Flick is not clear but the Catalans consider that they would be interesting options for the donostiarras. Finally, in spite of not being central, the name of Pablo Tower also has sounded in San Sebastián.