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Nico Williams’ OBSCENE Arsenal wage demands
Carlo Garganese
- Updated: 30 Apr 2025 09:14 BST
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Nico Williams' wage demands are complicating a summer transfer to Arsenal.
The Daily Mail reports that Williams' representatives are demanding a salary of a whopping €470,000 per week.
Current ETV
Nico Williams
M (L)
Athletic
Nico Williams
M (L)
Athletic
ETV Range
€64.1M - €78.4M
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This works out as just under €25 million per year that Williams would earn at his next club.
It would make Williams by far the highest earner at Arsenal as Kai Havertz is currently the best paid at €17m per season.
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Arsenal reject Williams demands
The Daily Mail reports that Arsenal have no intention of paying Williams even close to this salary this summer.
The same is the case for other interested parties such as Chelsea and Barcelona.
Arsenal would be happy to trigger Williams' €58 million release clause in his Athletic contract if they table a bid but his high wage demands have made negotiations over personal terms tricky.
Barcelona also wish to sign Williams but their financial situation makes a deal difficult.
Arsenal and Barcelona were in a two-way tussle to sign Williams last summer but the player eventually stayed at Athletic Bilbao.
Barca had been particularly desperate to sign the Athletic winger last summer but were unable to complete a deal for the same financial reasons.
It has long since been claimed that Williams would ideally rather join Barca if that move is still on the table.
Williams at Euro 2024
Williams was one of the stars of Euro 2024 with electric performances as Spain won the trophy.
He scored in the 2-1 final win over England and was one of the players of the tournament.
His best performance was arguably against Italy where he tore apart the right-back Giovanni Di Lorenzo and set up the winner - an own goal by Riccardo Calafiori.
He also scored a fantastic goal in the win over Georgia in the last-16.
The 22-year-old Williams is considered one of the most exciting young wingers in all of Europe.
Blessed with lightning pace and dribbling skills, he has a promising future in the game.
After making his debut for Athletic in 2021, Williams has scored 31 goals in 164 games.
He has also scored five goals in 26 games for Spain, and travelled to the 2022 World Cup.
This season he has 11 goals in 43 games.
