{"id":14607,"date":"2025-07-04T05:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T09:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/nico-williams-renews-with-athletic-frustrates-barca-and-their-signing\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T05:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T09:20:38","slug":"nico-williams-renews-with-athletic-frustrates-barca-and-their-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/nico-williams-renews-with-athletic-frustrates-barca-and-their-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nico Williams renews with Athletic, frustrates Bar\u00e7a and their signing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0630%2Fr1513068_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nNico Williams has renewed his contract with Athletic Club.\n\nWinger Nico Williams has secured his continuity with Athletic Club, signing a new contract that will bind him to the club until the year 2035. This decision puts an end to the speculation about his possible transfer to Barcelona, a team that had shown a strong interest in signing him this summer.\n\nBarcelona&#8217;s sporting director, Deco, had recently expressed Williams&#8217; desire to join the Catalan club. President Joan Laporta had even stated the club&#8217;s willingness to pay the player&#8217;s release clause, estimated at 58 million euros (68.3 million dollars).\n\nHowever, in an unexpected turn of events, Athletic Club announced on Friday an agreement for Williams&#8217; renewal. The player&#8217;s new release clause has been increased &#8220;by more than 50%&#8221;.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Williams has renewed his contract with Athletic Club. Winger Nico Williams has secured his continuity with Athletic Club, signing a new contract that will bind him to the club until the year 2035. This decision puts an end to the speculation about his possible transfer to Barcelona, a team that had shown a strong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1087,156,65,4223],"class_list":{"0":"post-14607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-athletic-club","9":"tag-barcelona","10":"tag-contract","11":"tag-nico-williams"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}