{"id":190457,"date":"2025-06-17T01:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T01:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/190457\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T01:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T01:47:14","slug":"arsenal-suffer-major-transfer-blow-as-one-of-their-top-targets-decides-to-join-barcelona-instead-as-mikel-arteta-is-left-playing-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/190457\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal suffer major transfer blow as one of their top targets decides to join Barcelona instead as Mikel Arteta is left playing catch-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Young Euros superstar has held talks with both Barcelona and Bayern Munich<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Arsenal have also been keen with Mikel Arteta promising a big summer window<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Watch Every Club World Cup Match Live on DAZN. Sign Up Now\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By SIMON JONES <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  17:24 EDT, 16 June 2025   |  Updated:  19:00 EDT, 16 June 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Athletic Bilbao winger and <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/arsenal\/index.html\" id=\"mol-733d9a80-4af7-11f0-9895-9d040eec26e8\" rel=\"noopener\">Arsenal<\/a> target Nico Williams has informed suitors of his desire to join <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/fc-barcelona\/index.html\" id=\"mol-733d9a81-4af7-11f0-9895-9d040eec26e8\" rel=\"noopener\">Barcelona<\/a> following positive talks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Williams, 22, has been subject to interest from Arsenal, Barcelona and <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/bayern-munich\/index.html\" id=\"mol-733dc190-4af7-11f0-9895-9d040eec26e8\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayern Munich<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He impressed at last summer&#8217;s Euros, teaming up with Barcelona star Yamine Lamal as Spain took home the crown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">That campaign marked Williams as one of the most promising wingers in the world as he opened the scoring in Spain&#8217;s 2-1 final win over <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/england_football\/index.html\" id=\"mol-733e36c0-4af7-11f0-9895-9d040eec26e8\" rel=\"noopener\">England<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Despite interest from the Emirates, Williams seems likely to stay in Spain having told those involved in talks of his preference for the Camp Nou.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He previously held talks with German champions Bayern Munich as well.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d566071d90a0fff2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99433431-14818477-image-a-75_1750108788114.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Nico Williams has told suitors of his preference for Barcelona despite interest from Arsenal\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Nico Williams has told suitors of his preference for Barcelona despite interest from Arsenal<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-e4d26e700be22d1b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99433443-14818477-image-a-76_1750108794028.jpg\" height=\"461\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Williams could link up with Spain team-mate Lamine Yamal at the Camp Nou next season\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Williams could link up with Spain team-mate Lamine Yamal at the Camp Nou next season\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-980c45ab7a5d78d7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99433467-14818477-image-a-77_1750108796299.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Mikel Arteta has promised a big summer transfer window but will have to look elsewhere\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Mikel Arteta has promised a big summer transfer window but will have to look elsewhere\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The news is a significant blow for Arsenal who have promised a big summer ahead in this transfer window.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;It&#8217;s going to be a big one and we are very excited about it,&#8217; said manager Mikel Arteta previously.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;The way we planned the first five summers, they were going to be very big and they were going to have different objectives.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DailyMailSport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Arsenal suffer major transfer blow as one of their top targets decides to join Barcelona instead as Mikel Arteta is left playing catch-up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young Euros superstar has held talks with both Barcelona and Bayern Munich Arsenal have also been keen with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[161,199,92,393,94,80,104,93,79,100,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-190457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-barcelona","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-mikel-arteta","14":"tag-spain","15":"tag-sport","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-transfer-news","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114696188655288873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}