Barca gamers tried to get me to hitch in the summertime

Spain and Athletic Bilbao star Nico Williams revealed that a number of Barcelona gamers tried to steer him to go away his present workforce and be a part of them at Camp Nou in the course of the summer time switch window.

Williams, who impressed at Euro 2024, was extremely wanted by Barca however in the end selected to stick with Athletic for at the least yet one more season.

Talking on La Revuelta TV present, Williams described the state of affairs as difficult.

He mentioned: “It was troublesome.

“The ‘bastards’ of [Barca] Lamine [Yamal] and [Alejandro] Balde and others didn’t assist. They might say to me, ‘brother come now, come now.’”

He added that his Spain teammates who play for Barcelona would textual content him “on a regular basis.”

Nico Williams on the #FCBarcelona transfer:

“On high of all of it, the b******* Lamine and Balde didn’t make it simple. Buah! ‘Brother, come now, come now, come now,’ in any respect hours, day-after-day, I mentioned ‘I’ll resolve’. I spoke about it with the household, that’s it.”pic.twitter.com/7WwZLZVWwW

— Soccer España (@footballespana_) November 7, 2024

Regardless of the membership signing one other Spanish worldwide, Dani Olmo, Williams continues to obtain blended messages from Barcelona followers on social media.

“It’s troublesome to evade your self from that,” he admitted.

“I nonetheless get messages regardless of not being linked. It’s a little bit of every little thing. Many individuals say ‘go to Barça,’ and others say ‘we don’t want you anymore.’”

Barcelona have loved a profitable begin to the season beneath new supervisor Hansi Flick, who took over from Xavi Hernandez on the finish of the final marketing campaign.

Flick has applied a novel disciplinary strategy, contrasting with Xavi’s nice system.

Midfielder Pedri added: “Xavi, for instance, would nice you €5000 for those who arrived late in the future and for those who arrived late the subsequent day, it might be double.

“Flick has taken away the fines. Now for those who arrive late, you don’t play. For me, it’s a lot worse to not play.”