Athletic Club President Jon Uriarte has actually fired back at the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and Barcelona over their handling of Nico Williams in current weeks. Speculation over his future has actually reached fever pitch in current weeks, and Athletic are not pleased that the RFEF have actually not actioned in.

Spain have actually made their gamers readily available to the media frequently throughout Euro 2024, which has actually implied Williams dealing with a variety of concerns about his future, and whether he wishes to have fun with a few of his La Roja colleagues at Barcelona. Lamine Yamal has actually regularly specified that he wishes to.

Breaking: Barcelona and Nico Williams have actually reached an arrangement in concept. Now, Barça must discover solutions to pay the winger’s release stipulation. @DBR8

— barcacentre (@barcacentre) July 10, 2024

The public pressure was kicked up a notch by Barcelona President Joan Laporta on Monday however, when he stated that not just do Barcelona have the cash to sign him, however that he was a fan of Williams. Now Uriarte has actually reacted. He stated the following as the club provided brand-new finalizings Andoni Gorosabel and Alvaro Djalo, and it was launched as a main declaration on their site.

“Nico, a footballer very committed to Athletic Club, has been subjected to a bombardment of questions about his future in an excessive and uncontrolled manner, when he is concentrated to compete at the Euros by the Spanish Football Federation, who have not known how to protect him.”

“Respect among all the actors that make up football is a fundamental basies, or that is how we conceive it at Athletic Club, which does not have the formula of subjecting players with contracts to other clubs to public pressure to try to sign them.”

#AthleticClub President Jon Uriarte has actually grumbled about the treatment of Nico Williams.

He states the Spanish Federation have actually not safeguarded him from the ‘barrage’ of concerns about his future, in an ‘extreme’ and ‘unchecked’ way. #FCBarcelonapic.twitter.com/Qv1EoefKrK

— Football España (@footballespana_) July 11, 2024

“Athletic aspires to the maximum, without limits. We are showing that we have an attractive and winning project for our footballers and coach. The proof is that we have recently renewed two of our internationals, Unai Simon (2029) and Dani Vivian (2031), Nico signed last year until 2027, and coveted players such as Oihan Sancet, Benat Prados, Julen Agirrezabala, and Aitor Paredes, to give some examples.”

“Athletic Club is economically, socially and sportingly capable of maintaining footballers of the caliber of those named in its structure, including Nico Williams.”

Relations in between Barcelona and Athletic have actually been wintry of late, due to the Negreira scandal and the Blaugrana pursuit of Inigo Martinez, which ended with the protector finalizing with Barcelona free of charge last summertime. Talk of Williams has actually controlled the last couple of weeks however, with Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool all supposedly thinking about the 21-year-old.