Barcelona are making good progress towards the signing of Nico Williams by all accounts, including that of President Joan Laporta. Yet the big question mark over his signing is how they will register the Basque winger.
Laporta claimed that Barcelona can ‘sign as normal’ on Wednesday night, despite Javier Tebas, President of La Liga, claiming the exact oppposite just a day before. His view was that the Catalan giants will need to make sales in order to clear enough space to register Williams.
There is a current of thought, as per MD (via Sempre Barca), that Barcelona can get to that place without selling any players that they do not want to move on from. Seven players are named as departures Director of Football Deco will push for, and they believe that if Ansu Fati, Pau Victor, Inaki Pena, Andreas Christensen, Oriol Romeu and Marc-Andre ter Stegen all exit, then they will be able to register both Joan Garcia and Williams. They say that the sale of Ronald Araujo is not being contemplated.
Barcelona have already drawn in €28.4m in sales this summer from the sale of Alex Valle, and the sell-on clauses included in the exits of Ilaix Moriba, Ludovit Reis, Alex Collado, Nico Gonzalez and Jean-Clair Todibo. Cadena SER explain that Barcelona still have active clauses in the contracts of Oscar Mingueza, Francisco Trincao, Mika Marmol, Riqui Puig and Mikayil Faye. If Ferran Jutgla leaves Club Brugge for more than €5m, Barcelona will earn 10% of what is paid on top of that.
On the other hand, if they cannot achieve the numbers desired to register Williams, Diario AS say that Barcelona could be forced into a sale they would rather not make. Fermin Lopez and Ronald Araujo stand out as candidates for those exits, who could fetch major fees.
The primary issue for Barcelona is that of those potential exits, Christensen and ter Stegen are adamant that they will stay at the club. They represent two of the highest-paid players on that list, and convincing them to leave wold not be easy. That said, Lopez and Araujo have both declared publicly they want to stay, leaving Deco without an obvious solution.
wesdeirz
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All those players are refusing to leave bcuz of the salary they are earning Barcelona always offering high salaries without even thinking about the future and when they want to sell most clubs can’t be willing to offer those players the same salary Barcelona is offering them and they can’t also be willing to reduce their salary so at the end they will always force to release them on free transfer or allow them to run their contracts down…
TheOddOne
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Problem is not about signing players who dun wanna join Barcelona Big problem is no players wanted to leave. no matter how low price they asking, nobody would want to just leave Barcelona. so Barca will end up with 32 first team players
Shark-V
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Fati? and why Puig is under contract
Hekmat-Salehi
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If Barcelona exit Fermin Lopez, they will regret it too much soon. He is a perfect talent with a good age to shine in Europe in any club. Many clubs including Bayern Munchen knows his light future, how Barca heads don't realize how good he is?!
23afr
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The white people really work towards agreements, it was not like ur African leaders that promised and faill
Zinabdnoz
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why is araujo not on that list sell araujo and keep christensen
rather than araujo , sell fati because fati earns nearly 14 million plus nico is just asking 12mn. that would be acceptable sacrifice we can afford rt now. it's an upgrade in barca attach for less money than a non existing fati we have for more salary that nico is asking.
WESTAFRICAN22
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They don't want to leave because of money 💰 not the love for the club
Nehdilrsyz
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Barcelona is too annoying prayers makes their own decisions in club you can’t sell just because they don’t want to leave meanwhile you don’t need them but u need to buy….I’m a Barcelona fan but I hate what the board are doing….
TheOddOne
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tired of these shittes
Nehdilrsyz
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You don’t have money you don’t want to sell then how can you buy..a team that every player makes his own decisions, those you need to sell are there yet you don’t sell them because they don’t want to leave Aba you’re always going here and there disgracing yourself, how many prayers you won’t get at the end of the day only 11 will start.
Ziwbcdeksu
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why is araujo not on that list sell araujo and keep christensen
Hoadimosu
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The best team in the world is broke hey