They were never together, but it certainly feels as if the consequences of Nico Williams's decision not to join Barcelona, something is of football falling. The 22-year-old wrote a new 10-year-old deal with Athletic Club, in the process that rejects a move to Barcelona.
The Blaugrana wanted to pay the release clause of Williams € 58 million, but after he asked that he guaranteed that he would be registered to play, the deal hit the rocks. The Catalan giants could not do this and were not willing to include a clause to allow Williams to leave if they could not. At that time, Williams negotiated a new deal with Los Leones.
According to El Chiringuito, Nico Williams' camp was not particularly impressed by director of Football Deco, who was their most important negotiating point. They say that after the agent Felix Tainta from Williams had asked the guarantees, Barcelona refused, but when it did not come into contact with the Basque wing player for the next six days his contract renewal with athletics preceded. The Williams camp was not impressed by Deco's lack of urgency on this.
In the meantime, the debt is aimed at Tainta in Barcelona. Cadena Ser says that the feeling in Can Barca is that Tainta did not want the deal to continue and put in the way of obstacles, quotes his close ties with Athletic, and the fact that he has a large number of customers in Bilbao, as motivating factors to continue the aforementioned relationships.
Santi Ovalle continues to say that Barcelona discovered at the same time as the rest of the world, and that the guarantees that Tainta demanded for the registration of Williams included, which included him for free if he was not registered by August 20. Something Barcelona did not want to offer, but Williams' decision was confronted with anger and felt that he was confident to be confident.
El Chiringuito continues to say that Barcelona Williams had given an ultimatum to decide his future last week. On Thursday, June 26, Williams supposedly 48 hours to call, that is, until Saturday the 28th. That period went and the two parties had not been in contact since.