A Joan Laporta now he doesn't like Nico Williams And if he thought about signing the Athletic Club player, it was because «Deco (Sports Director of Barcelona) he told me ». The Culé President Reniege of the Spanish player and says that from the first moment “the one I liked the most” Rashfordto which they have been able to incorporate through the assignment.
«There were several options and I am very happy because we have ended up getting The option that I liked the most”Joan Laporta said. That option was rashford, player of the Manchester United that has come to the next season. Of course, the top president culé acknowledges that he also liked Luis Díaz“A very complete player, but for his circumstances, with a very enrolled Liverpool, it was complicated to” sign him.
The most surprising thing is like Laporta Reniega de Nico Williams, a footballer who wanted to sign throughout the summer, but ended up renewing with Athletic Club. «Nico Williams also happened. And in view of the fact that Luis was complicated and that we were in the process of negotiation with Rashford, Nico's agent came offering the possibility of firing him», Says President Culé.
Laporta puts the shooting for not having signed the Spanish international and says in an interview in Sports World that it was deco who “commented” the option to get the services of Nico Williams, something that he did not like: “I in principle I preferred to work the other two options (Rashford and Luis Díaz), but in these cases I always listen to sports management ».
«He said (Deco) that At least we will listen to because he is an interesting player Because he holds band. There were negotiations, but what they told us to what was in the end, there was a lot of difference in the sense of the payment terms, in the agent's commission and a series of variables that already had visos that the operation would not occur, ”he continues Laporta in this interview in Mundo Deportivo, in which he reveals that Deco put a 48 -hour accountant” and if they did not accept our conditions, we were not going to do that operation. “
It should be remembered that Barcelona was much of this summer trying to sign Nico Williams, but that in the end the Navarro footballer He preferred to continue at Athletic. With the Basque club well on the accounts of Barcelona, knowing that they had complicated to register the hypothetical signing, Laporta came to say that “we are fulfilling all the requirements demanded by LaLiga and the Fair Play” about a possible incorporation of Williams, not to mention and of which he now renounces.
«As we have nothing to hide, Let us tax… no problem. But we want everyone to look at the same dump. We do not feel harmed or persecuted. We, to ours. We do things correctly. We don't have to hide at all, ”said Laporta when Athletic was being very belligerent with Barcelona.
