For several years, FC Barcelona has been in financial difficulty. Despite many ideas in the transfer market, the Catalan club often faces a cash flow problem with funds that cannot bring their desires to life. This summer, one of Barcelona’s great obsessions in the transfer window was the arrival of Nico Williams. Moved into another category of players after his very good victorious campaign with Spain at the Euro, the winger ultimately remained in Bilbao despite numerous requests.
Understanding that this transaction was going to be complex, Joan Laporta and his teams preferred to spend less money to recruit Dani Olmo, also author of a memorable Euro with La Roja. Returning to this summer choice, the Blaugrana president nevertheless explained that he made this choice for sporting reasons: “we never said that we were going to sign him, but that we could do an operation of this volume.” “And we did it a little less with Dani Olmo, who cost around 48 million. The sports management considered it more important to sign Dani Olmo than other players. We got him signed temporarily and we hope to get him signed permanently. There are always doubts about recruitments and we always end up signing them.»
