Euro 2024: Nico Williams and Francisco Conceicao are “in the sights” of Barcelona

Exploding after the first two matches of the Euro 2024 group stage, two young strikers Nico Williams and Francisco Conceicao became hot commodities in the European football transfer market.

After Spain’s 1-0 victory over Italy, Nico Williams was voted the best player of the match. Statistics show that after 2 group stage matches, the 22-year-old striker holding Spain’s left wing created 5 scoring opportunities, performed 6 successful dribbles and won 8 duels. .

Nico Williams was voted the Best Player in Spain’s victory over Italy

This ratio is only lower than junior Yamal on the opposite wing when the 16-year-old star playing for Barcelona had 1 assist to score a goal. Yamal created 4 scoring opportunities, had 7 successful dribbles and won 10 duels.

Barcelona wants Nico Williams to become a teammate of Yamal (left) and Pedri (right)

Nico Williams is becoming a hot commodity and is of interest to many big clubs. Chelsea announced their withdrawal because they did not want to break the salary structure when the 22-year-old star’s representative said he wanted a salary of up to 300,000 euros/week, while the fee to break the contract with Athletic Bilbao was about 58 million euros.

Barcelona’s president affirmed that he wants to bring Nico back to pair with two young talents Yamal and Pedri. Arsenal is also looking for him to increase competitiveness in the squad.

Spain is flying on the wings of Nico (left) and Yamal (right)

However, some Barca fans advised the club to buy Luis Diaz (Liverpool) because the Colombian international is also within his price range, has more experience and better goal-scoring ability.

other young star on the radar of a big team in England is Francisco Conceicao. Portugal’s hero in the win over the Czech Republic in the first round of the group stage had a transfer price of about 30 million euros and Man United had more than enough money to pay Porto’s contract breaking fee.

Francisco Conceicao (left) in the win over the Czech Republic

The Portuguese club is about to have a big change in the coaching position when Francisco Conceicao’s father, Sergio Conceicao – a former Portuguese international – is considering the possibility of moving to Marseille. After 7 seasons leading the number 1 club in Portugal, Sergio Conceicao has contributed to bringing home 11 titles.