19/7/2025–|Last update: 17:32 (Mecca time)
WhatsApp, sent by a Barcelona official, contributed directly to the phone of Niko Williams, directly in the failure of the international wing transfer deal to the Spanish football champion, according to the sports newspaper “Sport”.
The official account, which was actually behind the failure of Barcelona’s efforts to include Williams, is that the Catalan club was unable to provide guarantees to the Athletic Bilbao wing by registering his restrictions and avoiding the scenario of what happened with Danny Olmo at the beginning of last season.
The 22 -year -old was determined to join Barcelona, who said he was ready to pay the penalty clause in his contract with Bilbao of 58 million euros, but he asked the player to give him some time to resolve the issue of salaries in light of the financial crisis he is suffering from.
The negotiations between the two parties reached a dead end after the player’s agent, Felix Tanta, called for an item in the contract that allows the Spanish international to leave Barcelona without charge if the latter was not able to register it in its restrictions.
In the midst of talking about the approaching resolution of the transfer deal that Barcelona sought to conclude since the summer of 2024, Williams surprised everyone by announcing the stay in Bilbao and renewing the contract until June 30, 2035 after it ended in 2027.
Bilbao stated that he raised the value of the penalty clause in the player’s contract by 50% compared to the previous value.
However, the Spanish newspaper “Sport” reported that the decision to continue with Bilbao was taken from the Williams family after it arrived on the Niko private phone, a message from a Barcelona official in which he advises the player to abandon his agent Tinta and join the famous famous Portuguese agent Georgy Mendez or the Israeli Benny Zahavi who has a close relationship with the Catalan giant, to consider that the actions of Teta Obstinal the completion of the deal.
The effect of this request was inverse, because the Williams family has a close relationship with Tinta, who also represents Niko’s brother, his colleague in Bilbao Iniaci Williams.
As soon as the family learned of the message that arrived in Niko, it demanded that Tinta to conduct negotiations with Bilbao to extend her son’s contract, and this happened the next day.