The Athletic Club of Bilbao is very clear that if FC Barcelona wants to sign its great starNico Williams, It will not be a transfer but must pay their complete termination clause and in cash. The Basque club does not want to part with its greatest asset, so it will not sit down to negotiate with Joan Laporta or with any Barça manager to facilitate the exit of the Spanish end.
The case is simpler than it seems. If the Barca club wants to dress the international with the Blaugrana shirt next season, there is only one way: the immediate payment of the termination clause. This has made it clear Jon Uriarte, president of Athletic Club, that does not contemplate any intermediate route, no deadlines, or creative formulas. The full clause counted, the nothingness.
The message from Basque lands is sharp. And not only by way of pressure or strategy, but also responds to a deep conviction about how to manage a club that does not make transfers and clings to its players as an essential part of a unique model in European football. Nico Williams, like others before him, will not leave Athletic if it is not of your own will and through the unilateral exercise of its clause. So it was with Kepa, Javi Martínez or Laporte. And so it will be if applicable if you want to sign for Barça.
Nico williams: o cláusula o nada
Barça, in its usual financial engineering policy, wants Nico Williams but his plan was to pay in installments. The clause amounts to 62 million euros, a figure that already includes the adjustment for the CPI, and the Barça managers do not hide that they plan to ask the player to intercede to facilitate an agreed exit. From the culé environment, the possibility of opening a negotiation channel that allows to lighten the initial economic effort, even assuming a higher cost in the total of the operation.
But that play will not work with Athletic. From Bilbao, the answer is clear and any attempt will be rejected, in addition to cloud personal relationships. Athletic does not want tensions, but it is not willing to bend. «If someone wants to take Nico Williams, who pays the clause As stipulated. There are no more », is the internal message as reported Europa Press.
Neither fractional payments, nor makeup transfers, nor hybrid formulas. If Barça or any other club wants Nico Williams, he must enter the 62 million blow through LaLiga as precisely the Catalan club has recently made Joan García. The next few weeks will be decisive. In Barça there is confidence that Nico moves a file. That talk to the club, which is sincere, to ask to leave, but Uriarte and the Athletic are very clear about their position. For its part, the rojiblanco club will continue working to reinforce the squad and renew the key players. Summer is long, and although only the spotlights are monopolized, Athletic does not want to be paralyzed by a single operation.
