{"id":775,"date":"2025-07-16T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:12:08","slug":"nico-williams-explains-decision-to-stay-at-athletic-club-and-snub-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775\/","title":{"rendered":"Nico Williams explains decision to stay at Athletic Club and snub Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"25rCNk\">Nico Williams has spoken out about his decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/2025\/7\/4\/24461476\/barcelona-handed-bombshell-as-nico-williams-renews-athletic-club-contract-until-2035\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sign a new long-term contract<\/a> at Athletic Club and snub a move to Barcelona this summer.<\/p>\n<p id=\"LQeCt0\">The Spain star had looked set for Barcelona, after asking his agent to talk to the club about a move, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/2025\/7\/4\/24461510\/barcelona-shocked-and-angry-after-nico-williams-snub\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but ended up penning an extension instead in a shock development<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fbc1U1\">Williams has now been asked about his decision and says he wants to make history with the Basque side.<\/p>\n<p id=\"apZZ1U\">\u201cI think we have a very long season ahead of us. We have very ambitious titles like the Champions League, which everyone would like to play in,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elvMIg\">\u201chat could be better than doing it with the club of my life? I would like to continue making history here at San Mam\u00e9s, with the fans, with my family, and with a lot of enthusiasm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"OW8139\">In the meantime Barcelona continue to look for an alternative option, with Marcus Rashford and Luis Diaz the club\u2019s current targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nico Williams has spoken out about his decision to sign a new long-term contract at Athletic Club and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[1203,1200,1201,1206,1205,1208,1210,1207,49,48,1202,1198,1197,1209,700,1195,1204,561,82,1199,696,1196],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-and","tag-at","tag-athletic","tag-barca","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-la-liga","tag-barcelona-team-news","tag-blaugranes","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-club","tag-decision","tag-explains","tag-fc-barcelona-transfer-rumors-news","tag-front-page","tag-nico","tag-snub","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-stay","tag-to","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}