Nico Williams

Messi983

Messi983

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Andresito said:
Nico Williams will inform Athletic Club this week that he's leaving for Barcelona. Last year he agreed with the club that his clause could be paid in installments.
@10JoseAlvarez

Always with Barca in mind.
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Don't buy this.

There are always these "gentleman's agreements" reported but they rarely exists. Like with the Gyokeres case now where both sides have different stories.

We'll just have to pay the clause and club will probably take short term loan to have money available. But as always bigger problem will be how to create enough cap space to register him.
 
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Porque

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Messi983 said:
Don't buy this.

There are always these "gentleman's agreements" reported but they rarely exists. Like with the Gyokeres case now where both sides have different stories.

We'll just have to pay the clause and club will probably take short term loan to have money available. But as always bigger problem will be how to create enough cap space to register him.
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Can get it in writing to be fair.

Anyway fuck Bilbao. Trying to offer Bayern instalment terms for Nico.
 
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Porque

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malvolio said:
Why wouldn't they? They have nothing to gain by selling to us.
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By accounts they are making the offer of instalments to Bayern but full BO to us.

It's within their rights, but they should also keep the players will in mind.

Put it this way, Bilbao and us are not competition (bar the odd Copa del Rey matchup), we operate in the same country but at different levels. So at a sporting level it makes no difference where they sell bar ego.

BUT on a business level, it is better for them to sell to us. Building interest in a minimum of 2 LaLiga games per season versus Barca with the added spice of the Nico move can actually benefit them financially. Added ticket prices, viewership, merch, etc.

The same with Joan moving to us.

So yeah, I don't really give two fucks, but if they gave Nico their word of facilitating an instalment move to any optio in 25/26 in exchange for staying the 24/25, then it would be pretty cuntish to go back on it.
 
malvolio

malvolio

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Porque said:
By accounts they are making the offer of instalments to Bayern but full BO to us.

It's within their rights, but they should also keep the players will in mind.

Put it this way, Bilbao and us are not competition (bar the odd Copa del Rey matchup), we operate in the same country but at different levels. So at a sporting level it makes no difference where they sell bar ego.

BUT on a business level, it is better for them to sell to us. Building interest in a minimum of 2 LaLiga games per season versus Barca with the added spice of the Nico move can actually benefit them financially. Added ticket prices, viewership, merch, etc.

The same with Joan moving to us.

So yeah, I don't really give two fucks, but if they gave Nico their word of facilitating an instalment move to any optio in 25/26 in exchange for staying the 24/25, then it would be pretty cuntish to go back on it.
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Who's the last star player they sold to Barca or Real?

Doubted anyone is even more tempted to go and watch a game vs Barca because Nico is playing for us. The drama will wear off after a season. He'll get whistled and abused maybe in the long run but Bilbao gaining anything financially from this? Nah
 
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topt

Senior Member
Porque said:
By accounts they are making the offer of instalments to Bayern but full BO to us.

It's within their rights, but they should also keep the players will in mind.

Put it this way, Bilbao and us are not competition (bar the odd Copa del Rey matchup), we operate in the same country but at different levels. So at a sporting level it makes no difference where they sell bar ego.

BUT on a business level, it is better for them to sell to us. Building interest in a minimum of 2 LaLiga games per season versus Barca with the added spice of the Nico move can actually benefit them financially. Added ticket prices, viewership, merch, etc.

The same with Joan moving to us.

So yeah, I don't really give two fucks, but if they gave Nico their word of facilitating an instalment move to any optio in 25/26 in exchange for staying the 24/25, then it would be pretty cuntish to go back on it.
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wau, Bilbao is as much competition to you as Dortmund or Leverkusen is to Bayern; man the hypocrisy here, like listening to european politicians
 
Joan

Joan

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Bilbao won their last league title in 1984.

Leverkusen in 2023., and Dortmund in 2012.

Yeah, it’s not Nico leaving that’s stopping them.
 
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Porque

Senior Member
topt said:
wau, Bilbao is as much competition to you as Dortmund or Leverkusen is to Bayern; man the hypocrisy here, like listening to european politicians
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Remember that time Bilbao won the league in 1984. Remember that time, in 1984, when Bilbao won the league and Barcelona went to buy directly from Bilbao Basque legends like Steve Archibald the subsequent season.

Ah remember that time, it was 1984 was it, yeah 1984, when Bilbao won the league, and Barcelona went and poached the Basque legend Steve Archibald. Well he was Scottish at the time, and playing at Tottenham, but that Summer, the Summer of 1984, the one where Bilbao had just won the league, a German lad told me he was Basque that Summer, and actually signed from Bilbao. Coz they won the league.

Ah yes, I remember that time.
 
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