About Nico Williams

“I don’t understand people who are obsessed with the fact that Athletic needs to be in Europe and at the same time wonder why some players earn so much. We all went to school and some became naval engineers and others are workers. In a “The same goes for the soccer team. There may be four, five or six who are quite relevant to the team because they carry a certain weight and you have to pay more to those people because the market demands you.”

The explanation on this matter corresponds to Daniel Ruiz Bazán, Dani, during the red and white talk show on Radio Bilbao on Monday. The captain of eventual champions Athletic is just as powerful in front of the microphones as he was in front of opposition goals during his time as a player. That historic Clemente team won more on the field than off the field.

The one in a suit and the one in a tracksuit

Football has changed a lot since his time as a lion. What used to be a pure sport or almost has become an industry where men in suits and ties are slicing the pie into pieces as big or bigger than those in tracksuits. Not all players, don’t forget anyone, are Messi, Cristiano and company.

“Nico, Iñaki, Sancet, Iñigo when he’s gone… In my time, it’s true, there was a right to retention, but the economic differences that existed between what one club paid and another were not as dark as is happening now in the day,” argued Dani himself.

Athletic is currently once again in the situation of having to renew one of its most famous lions with the biggest projections. The old and not so old ex-rojiblancos, no matter how much is said behind closed doors, know for sure that now, away from Bilbao, they are offering little Williams more money than they can give him inside . That does not mean, in any case, that your decision to leave. The fight continues.