Barça 'abandoned' the 'Nico Williams operation' after the departure of Mateu Alemany and Jordi Cruyf

The FC Barcelona is increasingly interested in the signing of Nico Williams, and in fact is working to try have all the margin salarial possible so that only it remain to expect by the "himself" final of the player. The culés seem increasingly decided to give the 'hit' by the extreme of the Athletic Club, the one who would go out of Saint Mamés by some 58 million euros, the value of his clause of exit.

This figure fixed recently more than six months, afterwards that both parts arrived to an agreement of renewal. But it is that before, during the past year, the Barça was advancing to try fichar 'free' to Nico, taking into account that it finished agreement the past 30 June, although finally the player decided to sign a new agreement with the club in which it has formed , beside his brother Iñaki.

The Barça could have advanced in the signing 'free' of Nico Williams

However, the journalist Josep Pedrerol has explained in 'The Chiringuito' that the Barcelona club himself that had very advanced the operation with Nico Williams to try ficharle for this summer, avoiding so it completed his renewal and save pay a traspaso. Pedrerol Signalled that the previous sportive direction, conformed by Mateu Alemany and Jordi Cruyff, "had encarrilado the signing of Nico Williams", explained.

But in spite of this, the Barça did not continue with this operation when both directors decided to leave the past summer, being Cruyff the first in announcing that it would not continue at the head of the sportive direction. Alemany, by his part, was commissioned more than the accounts of the club, but after the arrival of Deco like sportive director, the club also arrived to an agreement with the Balearic for his exit, remembering besides that was very near to leave to the Aston Villa, but finished giving course backwards to his decision.

The information equally aims that the Barça, with Alemany and Jordi Cruyff always at the head of the negotiations, had thought can take advantage of this opportunity of fichar free to Nico, but also to Oihan Sancet, another big canterano of the Athletic. But, in that moment, Sancet himself that renewed quickly with the Basque group, what left all centred in Nico that, in front of the change of posture of the Barça, accelerated his renewal, although leaving a clause of exit something accessible.