This summer, FC Barcelona looked for an all -round attacker. Need a player capable of evolving on one side or at the forefront of the attack, the Catalan club has prospected many profiles. Finally, it was Marcus Rashford who was recruited in the form of a loan from Manchester United. A judicious and paying choice as the old Mancunian has given satisfaction since his arrival with two goals and four assists in eight meetings. However, this summer, the Catalan club took over the management of another player: Nico Williams. While Luis Diaz's name was also insistently returned, the Spanish striker of Bilbao was the most concrete target for the cules.
Finally, the deal, which seemed on the right track, capped itself. Indeed, without warning, Bilbao announced the extension of his player. Enough to put a big blow on the head of Catalan leaders, very confident about the signing of the Spanish international. Indeed, at the beginning of the summer, many Spanish media even said that the player had assured his Barcelona selection teammates that he was going to join Barcelona during the summer transfer window. Consequently, the leaders of Barça had not returned to this painful episode. It is now done with Deco who decided to shoot Bilbao, Nico Williams and his agent this Tuesday during an interview with Mundo Deportivo.
“We were not on Nico Williams” claims Deco
Indeed, the sports director of the Catalan club did not wish to do in lace and revealed all the behind the scenes of this aborted transfer. “”Nico did not have exactly the profile we were looking for, but he can play on the left as on the rightexplains Deco. If a great player like Nico requests us, when the agent is looking for us, we discuss, and that's how it happens. Football is like that; The player, for one reason or another, did not want conditions offered to him. It is not a question of recording guarantees, it is very simple. If you want to negotiate, tell me everything you need and what you want and do not change anything afterwards. That's it. And I will no longer talk about it, there have been too many discussions, too many nonsense, including from Bilbao. (…) There is no error, we simply set the conditions of the club, then the negotiations must be put on paper, in contracts, and we said that we do not accept the conditions they set because no player will condition us and, in the end, nothing happened. We gave them a delay to answer, they did not respond, they made their way and we made ours.»»
After this frank explanation, the Catalan leader then split a fairly childish speech in which he simply decided to castigate the management of Bilbao. While recalling that the club has never been at the quest for Nico Williams but that it is the player and his agent who did everything to join Catalonia this summer: “I do not want to get into questions that do not concern me, I devote myself to players, to the daily management of the club, but I do not think that Bilbao is an example in this sense. We did not look for their player, we did not get it. They must worry about the agent who has come to Barça several times to offer the player. (…) I do not enter into the details, otherwise I should explain the negotiations that are going well or bad. And I don't like it. I have relations with the agents and I must not exhibit them in public. Everyone wants to work for their own player, it's normal, and I will not enter into the details. I just want it to be clear that we did not look for Nico, it was the agent who looked for us.This is said.
