- Barcelona have reached a personal agreement with Nico Williams over a six-year contract worth €12M per year
- The club must now find €62M to activate his release clause at Athletic Bilbao
- La Liga chief Javier Tebas warns that official registration remains pending due to 1:1 rule compliance
Key Takeaways:
Spanish champions Barcelona have made a final decision to sign Nico Williams as their new winger, having reached an agreement with him over a move to Camp Nou. According to reports from Spain, the winger has agreed to a six-year contract with a salary of €12 million per year.
🚨🚨🌕| MAJOR BREAKING: Barcelona has already reached an AGREMENT in principle with Nico Williams on a contract until 2031.
His salary will be €12M gross per season.
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However, the more serious challenge for the Catalan club remains finding the €62 million required to activate the release clause in his contract with Athletic Bilbao. If the deal is finalised, it will follow the expected transfer of goalkeeper Joan Garcia from Espanyol, whose release clause will also be paid — in his case, the fee amounts to €25 million.
As for Joan Garcia, while Barcelona are expected to officially announce the transfer soon, La Liga president Javier Tebas reminded that announcing a signing is one thing, but registering the player is another. “We’ll see… Barca need to do a few things in order to register him. It’s not much, but there are things that need to be done, and the club knows what they are,” he concluded.
Barcelona are working hard to comply with the 1:1 rule ahead of the next transfer window. Javier Tebas made it clear that the club is still not in line with that regulation. The 1:1 rule means a club can spend only as much as it earns.