World Sports: Barcelona is optimistic about signing Nico, but will not pay the termination fee before ensuring registration

June 18, According to the World Sports Report, Nico Williams is closer to joining Barcelona. He has won the favor of Barcelona through a series of positive measures, including sending his agent to meet with Barcelona and saying that he is willing to lower the salary agreed with the club last year to facilitate the transfer. These actions have made Barcelona club, especially Chairman Laporta very satisfied.

Considering that Nico rejected more attractive proposals from teams such as Bayern and Arsenal, Barcelona has now regarded him as the preferred target to strengthen the left, while Luis Dias is placed in a secondary position. According to internal news, Barcelona is optimistic about signing Nico and everything is moving in the right direction.

Although Barcelona communicates very smoothly with players and their agents, they will not activate the termination clause before ensuring they can register for the player, which was a request made by the player last summer and Barcelona is unwilling to take such risks. At present, Barcelona knows that their relationship with Athletic Bilbao is tense and cannot reach an agreement through negotiation. The only way is to pay a 58 million euro termination fee to complete the transfer.

Before paying the termination fee, Barcelona needs to make sure there is enough financial space to complete the player registration. They hope that the departure of Ter Stegen or Araujo (whose termination fee will be reduced to €65 million from July 1 to 15) will make the necessary salary space.