Matteo Moretto Transfer Column: Mikel Merino, Rafa Marin, Amadou Onana and Nico Williams

Matteo Moretto gives Football España exclusive information on the latest business dominating the newspapers in Spain, as revealed in Daily Briefing by Fabrizio Romano.

I know that Atletico Madrid has been working on this for several weeks and it is a market opportunity, like Barcelona. Real Sociedade is very pessimistic about his contract renewal and that's why they automatically put him on the market.

Atletico and Real Sociedad are already talking about an agreement for Robin Le Normand, as we discussed earlier in the week, and I will not rule out that they have also touched on the subject of Merino, but until the Euros are finished, in my opinion. it is unlikely that there will be dramatic news about Merino.

Let's talk about Everton midfielder Amadou Onana. It is true that – we reported it to the original here, some time ago – it would be the profile that Deco likes the most to fill the open hole left by Sergio Busquets last summer. For Deco, he is a very strong midfielder, one of the ideal skills to strengthen the Barcelona midfield that ended with Andreas Christensen here at the end of last season.

But the costs of any deal are difficult for Barcelona to finance, and there is too Premier League competition. Clearly, they are not in a position to compete with some of the Premier League's richest men as things stand.

At present, Chelsea consider that the route that Nico Williams took is not feasible due to the costs of any deal. His release clause at Atheltic Club, which, as I revealed earlier this week, is 58 million euros, and the salary that Nico would ask for, are out of reach at the moment for Chelsea. Nico is just at Athletic, he just renewed his contract and He is certainly not in a hurrynor is there any pressure for him to change teams.

It is true that Barcelona follows him very closely, in Barcelona there are many who push for his purchase, but economically it is a very difficult operation that previously involved a sale. Nico has many friends in the Barcelona dressing room, as we discussed earlier last week.

There has been a flurry of reports that Rafa Marin has moved to Napoli this week, and nothing has changed. They are only solving some details related to buyback figures and some problems related to the player's contract, such as image rights.

These are minor details rather than key negotiation points. All parties involved have given the OK for the deal, including Real Madrid and Marin. It's only a matter of time. Everything will be resolved during the next week.

Regarding other Napoli news, there are no updates on Alessandro Buongiorno, as I explained after the Euro everything will be clearer. The agreement with Torino is still missing, there is no doubt. On the other side of the Marin deal, Leny Yoro continues to give first priority to Real Madrid, but repeats that we have to wait and see how much Real Madrid will want to invest in the deal, and how much they want to pay Lille. .