Javier Tebas has weighed in on Barcelona’s pursuit of Nico Williams after Athletic Bilbao met with LaLiga to debate the Spanish champions’ funds.
Athletic winger Williams is reported to have a €58million launch clause and is claimed to wish to depart the membership to hitch Barca.
However, with Barca nonetheless working below tight monetary rules, Athletic met with LaLiga on Thursday to debate the Catalan membership’s potential to register gamers.
Barca have beforehand had points registering gamers, most notably Dani Olmo, however on Friday their president Joan Laporta insisted they have been prepared to meet Williams’ release clause.
Now Tebas has had his say on the saga, with the LaLiga president telling EFE Deportes: “Athletic Membership are complaining as a result of Barcelona have publicly acknowledged, if the statements attributed to Deco are true, that they wish to signal a participant.
“In line with FIFA rules, he’s in a protected interval, and we don’t have the authority to intervene in that. What we’ll do, as we’ve got at all times executed, is that Barcelona must adjust to the rules to signal gamers, be it Nico Williams, [Erling] Haaland, [Lionel] Messi… whoever it might be. And we received’t change something.”
Tebas went on to reference Laporta’s earlier assertions that Barca should not in compliance with the 1:1 rule, which requires golf equipment to match the cash spent on new signings with income or wage financial savings.
“I’m not saying it, the president of FC Barcelona mentioned it, they aren’t within the 1:1 rule,” Tebas added.
“I hope they are going to be as quickly as doable, as I want all golf equipment to be. However as I at all times say, Barcelona is aware of what it has to do to be within the 1:1 rule as a result of the rules are already well-known.
“And Athletic Membership additionally is aware of what Barcelona has to do, as a result of in February we have been very clear in order that nobody would doubt Monetary Truthful Play.”
