Barcelona transfer news: Liverpool rekindle interest in Nico Williams

Looking at their depth chart, Liverpool don’t really look like they need to make any major attacking signings this summer, but speculation over Luiz Diaz’s future, given the open interest in his camp last year, to move to Barcelona, ​​led to some discussions. .

The story at the end of Barcelona this summer has been fairly constant that the financially troubled Catalan club would like to sell 27-year-old Brazilian winger Raphinha to Saudi Arabia to fund an upgrade of the position, with Diaz being a top target to replace him.

According to the National today, to guard against Liverpool ‘reviving’ their interest in Athletic Bilbao star Nico Williams, the 21-year-old is currently on the run at the Euros and has been linked with a rather tempting £58m of euros (49 million pounds). ) release clause.

If Barcelona manage to sell Raphinha and sign Diaz, then the Reds could move quickly to land Williams. It’s just that it has been frequently suggested in Spain that Barcelona would most like to bring him to the Camp Nou, rather than Bilbao’s Williams and not Liverpool’s Diaz.

So either Barcelona want Diaz to replace Raphinha, in which case Liverpool would want Williams to replace Diaz. Or Barcelona want Williams to replace Raphinha, in which case we probably don’t need to talk about all that. And the latter is probably more likely.

Bilbao, for their part, are not said to relish the idea of ​​losing Williams, which seems reasonable. And for our part, we are skeptical that Barcelona can sign either Williams or Diaz and so at this point I think it’s most likely that Diaz will spend the 2024-25 season with the Reds.