Report: Bayern Munich's Max Eberl recently held meeting with agents for Athletic Club star Nico Williams
The mini transfer window for club's playing in this summer's FIFA Club World Cup is now officially closed, but the transfer rumor mill for Bayern Munich has been heating up. Florian Wirtz has all but completed his move from Bayer Leverkusen to Liverpool and Leroy Sané has agreed to join Galatasaray and will not be joining Bayern in the United States for the Club World Cup.
The door is wide open for Bayern to sign a replacement winger and there is added impetus to strike a deal as soon as possible now that Sané is out the door and Wirtz's move to Merseyside is sealed. Athletic Club's Nico Williams has emerged as the club's top transfer target in recent weeks, as the Spanish winger has a release clause of 60 million euros that Athletic Club is now desperately trying to increase in attempts to get him to agree to a contract extension. The advances from Bayern might be too much to turn down, though, for both the player and the club.
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Per new information from Sport Bild's Christian Falk and Tobi Altschäffl (via @iMiaSanMia), Bayern board member for sport Max Eberl held a meeting in Munich with Nico Williams' agents to discuss a potential summer transfer. To add to that, the Spanish winger is now Eberl's top transfer priority of the summer, as it has emerged this week that Milan's Rafa Leão is more than likely off the table for Bayern.
Crystal Palace's Eberechi Eze, Brighton & Hove Albion's Kaoru Mitoma, Chelsea's Christopher Nkunku, RB Leipzig's Xavi Simons, and Paris Saint-Germain's Bradley Barcola have all also been linked with Bayern, but Williams remain the hottest target at this juncture. Williams himself has also signalled that he could very well envision a move to Bayern and that he has essentially narrowed his choices down to three options.
The winger either wants to stay with Athletic, go to Bayern, or go to Arsenal. All three options are potentially in the cards for the Spain international that Eberl and Christoph Freund are eager to try to sign for the German Rekordmeister. Athletic Club will likely try to hold more discussions with the player now that the international break is over, but Eberl and Freund will certainly be working equally as hard to try to get a deal to materialize.
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