Hansi Flick specializes in addressing press conferences as coach of FC Barcelona without wanting to fuel debates. This Friday, during his media appearance before the Liga match at Montjuïc against Athletic Bilbao, the German coach was asked about the arrival of Nico Williams as a rival and not as a member of the culé squad. As Athletic’s number 10 is a good dribbler, Flick’s dribbling in the issue isn’t bad either. “It’s not my job to talk about a player on the opposing team,” he quickly replied.
To confirm this assertion, Flick chose to confirm something that was already taken for granted, the scoreboard name of the dizzy red-and-white winger. “We have a very skilled player to control it, like Jules Koundé,” he hoped.
It is clear that, although there are market days ahead, the name of Nico Williams has dropped significantly in the pool of possible signings at Barça as the footballer was shown in the official Athletic organ wearing the number 10 shirt and speaking in code of the future. Officially, with the exception of an implicit allusion by the culé president Joan Laporta answering a direct question about whether Barça is in a position to carry out an operation like that of Nico Williams, Barça avoided causing tension in the debate this.
The regular appearances of Nico Williams with the Barça players, during the Euro Cup and even on vacation, increased the noise of the media, which did not go well in Bilbao. Flick clearly does not want free trouble and only speaks with pragmatic clarity when he is interested, for example, when it was confirmed that for him Dani Olmo is ready to play, but he has nothing to say about joining LaLiga because it was indifferent to his duties at the club.
Source: La Verdad
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