Barça’s Nico Williams deal hinges on player paying release clause
There’s a lot of buzz about the upcoming signing of Nico Williams for FC Barcelona. According to Fernando Polo in MD, the deal will cost 62 million euros, which includes the 58 million clause plus 4 for the CPI. The VAT is not included in the clause payment, and the CPI is part of the player’s clause.
This deal hinges on the payment of the termination clause, a unique instrument in our competition since 1985, regulated by Royal Decree 1006 for professional athletes. If the player decides to leave without cause, the club is entitled to compensation determined by labor jurisdiction based on various factors.
The crucial part is the payment made by the player to deposit the amount at LaLiga headquarters. Once this is done, Nico Williams can sign for FC Barcelona.
As a result, the player holds the key, and his current club, Athletic Club de Bilbao, is just a bystander. Even if other clubs offer more money, like PSG, if the player doesn’t want to go, the deal won’t happen. The player or his representatives must make the deposit, and without their agreement, the deal won’t proceed.
Then there is the option that any of the clubs interested in the little Williams decide to make an offer to Athletic Club de Bilbao for the player. And two things can happen here. First, the Basque club flatly refuses to listen or puts on the table a figure that has nothing to do with the 58 million of its clause. And in the end, the player’s opinion is decisive here as well. All this places Barcelona as the best placed to be able to carry out the operation, once it can execute it according to its ‘fair play’.
This content has been translated and adapted from the Spanish version of the digital newspaper