Nico Williams

[Don Juan Laporta Estruch]

Evidence number 54,382 that God is indeed a Cule.

Never wanted this 5 goal a season merchant and yet again God provides a miracle to save the Barca from it's Special Olympics Sporting Department.

Now it's time for CALM. Nothing stupid. No need to panic. Lookman for 30m max. Rashford for small portion of wages and no obligation. Please no Luis Diaz who is another 5 goals a season merchant.

If they were smart, super smart, they would flip the script and use the Nico money for Gyokeres. Bench Lewa. Rash as LW cover.

This is good news lads. Very good news.

 

[Joan]

If Deco was a proper SD he would have gone for Gittens as no1 choice.
21 yr old, better dribbler than Nico, higher ceiling overall, low wages.

Chelsea got him from BvB for 55m

LW market is not poor. Our SD department is poor

Could make a list of wingers that have made a move since last summer but I’m too scared to.

Thus far we’ve shown no imagination whatsoever.

 

[M3ls]

If Deco was a proper SD he would have gone for Gittens as no1 choice.
21 yr old, better dribbler than Nico, higher ceiling overall, low wages.

Chelsea got him from BvB for 55m

LW market is not poor. Our SD department is poor

I'm not sure he's better at dribbling. Even in the Bundesliga, where there's a lot more space than in La Liga, Gittens' dribbling success rate is below 43%.

 

[Birdy]

I'm not sure he's better at dribbling. Even in the Bundesliga, where there's a lot more space than in La Liga, Gittens' dribbling success rate is below 43%.

How much is Nico? How many are also the successful dribbles per game?

 

[Joan]

Barcelona are in shock — they only found out about Nico Williams’ renewal through Twitter, with the club having no prior knowledge.

 

[Birdy]

Evidence number 54,382 that God is indeed a Cule.

Never wanted this 5 goal a season merchant and yet again God provides a miracle to save the Barca from it's Special Olympics Sporting Department.

Now it's time for CALM. Nothing stupid. No need to panic. Lookman for 30m max. Rashford for small portion of wages and no obligation. Please no Luis Diaz who is another 5 goals a season merchant.

If they were smart, super smart, they would flip the script and use the Nico money for Gyokeres. Bench Lewa. Rash as LW cover.

This is good news lads. Very good news.

Lookman is highly indisciplined and would not work in Flick's system.
Also an 1 trick pony: great finisher from the left corner of the penalty box, but that's it about him...

 

[M3ls]

How much is Nico? How many are also the successful dribbles per game?

36% in season 2024-2025
45% in season 2023-2024

 

[draconifire]

The only Bilbao channel I know of. Good insight.
Have a look.

 

[El Ilusionista]

Lookman is highly indisciplined and would not work in Flick's system.
Also an 1 trick pony: great finisher from the left corner of the penalty box, but that's it about him...

You are twerking for Rashford but calling Lookman highly indisciplined?

 

[khaled_a_d]

Couldn’t understand the hysteria over him at all. Decent player but certainly not worth the constant news stories and hype about his signing.

Bilbao are just going to hope someone is desperate enough to trigger the higher release clause.

The market for LW is fairly poor, and almost every club out there is trying to get new one (Chelsea already did, Arsenal and Bayern are trying to get theirs, soon City will realise they need one, and if Diaz goes for Saudi, Liverpool will try to get another one)

Other than Nico, it was either a fairly older option (Diaz, Lookman) or prospects with higher chance of failure (Gittens, Nusa, Fofana).

Nico was high floor, low ceiling signing.

I doubt Bilbao is hoping he leaves later, they priced him out of the market tbh, unless he wants to go to Saudi at mid 20's. He will be their Saul.

 

[Jaguar]

I’m not normally the type of guy to hope someone gets injured, but honestly I don’t mind if this guy becomes Bilbao’s version of Ansu Fati in a couple months and they can’t get rid of him for 10 years with a bad knee and extortionate wages

 

[Loki]

Felix tainta, his agent, played a big role as well. All his players are in Bilbao and none of them leaves the club. Wouldn't surprise me, if he gets bonus money for extensions there.

 

[HeadElastico]

I wanted Nico as a backup winger since we only have 1 winger in our squad really, and you can't try and compete for all competitions with that kind of squad depth.

I wasn't overly hyped for him or anything, just want a decent winger who is an actual winger with pace to give us some depth and also fit in when players are off form.

What I find really annoying is our club looking like cucks once again. I don't really know how sporting departments operate but it seems we have transfer sagas every single year. Griezmann, Neymar, Fábregas, dembele, and the list goes on. Madrid had Mbappe yes, but I'm sick of Barca looking moronic every year.

What was the need for all this chatter about Nico in public? Don't tell me 'that wasn't the club' because it obviously was - they feed the media. Also we have publicly spoken about Nico officially too. Why not pretend like we're not even involved until we sign him?

Lastly, 5 years in from COVID and we still can't do basic things like register signings without a whole hoopla around it.

 

[Don Juan Laporta Estruch]

The main thing I have learned from this is that players don't see Bayern as big enough to even be used to get a bigger contract.

Pequeño club. 🤏🏼

That is all.

 

[Andresito]

Lol, what? I've already come to terms with the fact that he's coming to us.

Okay, that shows his mental weakness. He was scared to try himself in a TOP club.
Maybe it's for the best. I already said that I don't think this option is ideal.

Besides, the pair of Lamin and Niсo could be a problem in terms of discipline.

The most important thing now is not to act impulsively.

Diaz is unlikely to transfer, given the death of Diego Jota.

Calm and only calm.

@Horatio you guys think alike