Nico Williams is one of the attractions that have the most lively the summer transfer window. Announced close to FC Barcelona, the star of Athletic Bilbao finally preferred to stay within the Basque club. A scenario similar to that of summer 2024, but this time, the Spanish striker also extended his contract with the Zuri-Gorriak until June 2035.
In the columns of Mundo Deportivothe sports director Blaugrana Deco returned to this hot file. According to the Portuguese, the native of Pamplona is not free from any reproach in the failure of his transfer to the Spanish champion.
“Bilbao said too many nonsense”
“There was no mistake, we simply set the club's conditions, then we had to go to paper negotiations, contracts. We told them that we did not accept the conditions imposed on us, because no player will dictate his law. In the end, nothing happened. We gave them a delay to answer, they did not respond, they followed their way and we followed ours. (…) This is not a question of registration guarantees. If you want to negotiate, tell me everything you need and what you want, and don't change your mind afterwards. That's it. I will not talk about this subject anymore, we talked about it too much and Bilbao said too many nonsense ”said Deco.
The Catalan leader did not spare his liga rival either: “I think Bilbao is by no means an example to follow in this area. We did not try to recruit their player, it was not we who came to court it. Rather, they should worry about the agent who has come to Barça several times to offer them this player. If one of our players authorizes his agent to discuss with other teams, we cannot blame other clubs for this. This is a very simple situation, the agent contacted us, he tried to sell it to us, it did not succeed and we have moved on to something else. »»
