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He Representative of Nico Williams, Félix Talhas communicated on Tuesday June 24 to Athletic the intention of the extreme of abandoning rojiblanca discipline and join the new project of Barcelona under the umbrella Hansi Flickone of the great valuers of its incorporation into the Barça structure. In this way, the youngest of the brothers continues to take firm steps towards a transfer that is increasingly closer to occur, already visible on the horizon, conditioned on Barça face the full payment of its termination clause of 58 million euros plus the CPI, which would leave about 62 million in the rojiblanco club coffers.

The Basque entity It remains firm in its determination of Do not negotiate With the Catalans and demand what is collected in the contract of the absolute international, signed until June 30, 2027. In addition, as already warned in the past, it will be very attentive to the entity chaired by Joan Laporta fulfilling in a scrupulous way with the financial ‘Fair Play’ when inscribing soccer players.

He Departure path of Lezama and San Mamés He is increasingly clear for the minor of the Williams, who is determined to leave the club he arrived more than a decade ago to join the Alevín team, when he was only ten years old and aspired to follow the footsteps of his older brother Iñaki. Barcelona broke into the rojiblanco board last year, when he tried to sign the European champion with Spain without success. The Athletic remained firm, cracking in its commitment to respect the contracts and not negotiate a cent for their players, and the Catalans ended up withdrawing. They hired Dani Olmo And months later they resorted to the Higher Sports Council (CSD) to authorize them to register inside after receiving the refusal of the League. Now, they return to the Navarro and they do it seriously, it is supposed to with the money ahead. From the city, it is ensured that the Culés will deposit the termination clause next week, July 1 or 2, so the soap opera would come to an end.

He ends is closed an agreement With the Barca club for six seasons In exchange for seven or eight million annually, as advanced by the specialist of the Fabrizio Roman signing market and confirmed this newspaper in different sources of all solvency. The treatment was sealed after a meeting of the sports director of Barcelona, ​​Deco, with TAINTA in a hotel in the city of Condal a couple of weeks ago -the agent denied it and then Deco herself confirmed it. Then there was a lightning trip of the Brazilian to meet with the end in Ibiza, where he spent a few days on vacation. In his displacement he was accompanied by his assistant, Bojan Krkic, and Alejandro Echevarría, exciting of Joan Laporta, a man with a lot of ancestry at the Barça Board even though he has no charge. It was another step in an operation that takes more than a year and is about to crystallize in a transfer.

Deco’s words

The Barca entity He raised finance the purchase of Nico In comfortable deadlines, a movement that revealed a deep ignorance of how Athletic works in the defense of its players. Barcelona sources slid that if necessary they will ask for a loan, as they did to Pay the 25 million Joan García to Espanyol. The IPC, of ​​1.34 million, that the ‘Pericos’ imposed that it was paid. The postponed payment was the same strategy used last campaign with Dani Olmo and Leipzig. Barça had raised this formula and the president of Athletic, Jon Uriarte, refused in Redondo because Ibaigane did not negotiate the departures of his players. In addition, the situation between the two clubs lives its worst moment after the clashes at the expense of the Catalan maneuvers to hire the minor of the Williams, the ‘Negreira case’ and the registration of players thanks to the CSD.

After all these movements, meetings and conversations between Barça and the player’s agent to fix the personal terms of the operation -Soup, duration of the contract … -Deco took the final step in an interview with the newspaper ‘La Vanguardia’. “Both Nico and other players, today, show desire to come. If the circumstances occur, we are going to try.” He released the pump in the form of an exposure of Athletic’s footballer, who neither he nor his surroundings came out to deny. They did not do it because the Barca Sports Director advanced in the right direction and widened the path that leads to Camp Nou. “Nico,” he continued – did not happen last season, although for me the operation of Dani Olmo was more priority. ” And then he insisted once again on the desire of the end of the Athletic of Barca’s dress. “The most important thing is that players like Nico or Luis -Díaz, Liverpool – or other names are soccer players who want to come. They are good people, who are hungry and desire to continue triumphing.”

It was the penultimate stone of an already quite paved highway so that Nico Williams travels it in Barcelona. Just two days after the intervention of Decco, Talo transferred to Athletic what he already knew: that the little one of the brothers wants to dress in Barca. The rojiblanco club continues in place and is firm in its decision to demand the clause and ask LaLiga to watch over compliance with financial rules, but the goodbye of the extreme is getting closer and closer and can feel almost physically, such as the fed up of the rojiblanca fans, eager for the soap opera to end. 15 days are missing for the template to return to training in Lezama, where, except capital surprise, it will only break to sweat one of the Williams. The Captain.