Joan Gaspartpresident of FC Barcelona between July 2000 and February 2003, spoke at the Podcast 'Only for Culés' About him Nico Williams plant to Barça to end up renewing with Athletic Club.
Surely there are 1,000 better than Nico Williams
“Nico Williams is a great player, but now the problem is no longer the FC Barcelona. Surely there are 1,000 better than him in the world,” he began arguing the popular and charismatic ex -director of 80 years.
Gaspart detects two problems at Athletic to renew Nico Williams: “Don't say our fault” “
Gaspart believes that Athletic Club was generated by a double problem with the expansion of Nicol Williams contract: “Now the problem is Bilbao. I hope they don't say that our fault is ours.”
“The problem is Bilbao because when the players realize that they are charging half, half, half of what a player (Nico Williams) does not like. And the second problem. The fans, like Nico Williams not scope 50 goals, will whistle him,” explained the director of the HUSA HOTELERO GROUP.
Joan Gaspart's critic to Barcelona for his way of negotiating the signing of Nico Williams
Joan Gaspart was very unhappy with Barça's management in negotiations with Nico Williams, denouncing a lack of “passion” that was once breathed in Can Barça.
“What do not explain to me stories! To the Maradona, rivaldo, Zubizarreta, bakero … I have signed them and something like that happened to me
“Barcelona is a passion club. And the passion is not filled by a professional, it is carried by the one who has it. He who does not charge for being from Barça. And it is not a criticism of Mr. Deco, much less. But he who signed Hansi Flick was Joan Laporta, was not the technical director,” he began arguing.
There has been no passion. I did not charge for doing what I was doing. He did it for passion. And when you do with passion it is very difficult for you to escape things
Gaspart turned to the past to defend his theory: “What do not explain to me stories! To the Maradona, rivaldo, Zubizarreta, Bakero … I have signed them and something like this never happened to me. Once the technical director tells you the player who loves is the passion that convinces the player who comes.
Interview with Joan Gaspart on Marker
“There has been no passion, and it is not a criticism of Deco, who is a professional who is today in Barcelona and tomorrow will be in another team that pays him more. I did not charge for doing what he did. He did it for passion. And when you do it with passion it is very difficult for things to escape,” he insisted.
Joan Gaspart: “To me the intermediary that has Nico Williams would not have fooled me”
Regarding the negotiations of Nico Williams agents with Barcelona the former director was very forceful: “To me the intermediary that Nico Williams has not fooled. We would have seen it right away.”
“The representatives, when we had just negotiations … do you know what they said? 'Before they take away a tooth before negotiating with Joan Gaspart's asshole'
“The representatives, when we just had the negotiations … do you know what they said? He brought me to the best player in the world at that time, which was called Diego Armando Maradona, “he recalled.
Joan Gaspart: “To me the intermediary that has Nico Williams would not have fooled me”
As an example, Joan Gaspart put the negotiations with Andoni Zubizarreta to leave the Athletic Club and sign for Barcelona in 1986: “That they talk to Andoni Zubizarreta to tell how I file it. When Zubi was doubting and told him to put my wife with his wife. I spoke with the woman, and put passion. When I hung two, Zubizarreta called me and said 'Juan, where we have to sign'.
Toni Freixa: “I am hurt, Barcelona has badly managed the signing of Nico Williams”
Toni Freixacandidate for the presidency of FC Barcelona in 2015 and 2021 and manager of the Club Culé with Joan Laporta, Sandro Rosell and Bartomeu, was also critical of Barcelona's performance in a failed signing of Nico Williams.
Toni Freixa: “I am hurt, Barcelona has badly managed the signing of Nico Williams”
“Barcelona has not managed this situation.osep Pedrerol in 'El Chiringuito'.
“My club is incumbent, I think Barcelona has not managed it well,” he insisted.
Freixa acknowledged that “I am hurt with Barcelona because much has been exposed. The negotiations in the market must be carried out differently and here absolutely everything has been broadcast. It has been given for done one thing that was not made and in the end we have stayed with a palm of noses. We must recognize it.”
