Nico Williams finally chose to renew his contract with Biba and refused to join Barcelona. The Daily Sports reported that behind this decision involved a secret middleman and a conversation between Barcelona chairman Laporta.

Western media revealed that on June 8, Nico's agent Felix Tanta took advantage of the national team competition to meet with Bayern Sports Director in Munich. According to reports, Bayern was very eager to sign Nico and made a offer, but the agent took the initiative and did not respond immediately.

On June 13, Nico's agent took the initiative to go to Barcelona and held an hour and a half meeting with Barcelona sports director Deco in a private room in a hotel. During the talks, Tanta clearly expressed Nico's strong desire to join Barcelona, ​​and did not mention the issue of player registration guarantee that would eventually become the crux of the problem.

However, when the meeting was exposed by the media, the plot began to reverse. Tanta strongly denied to all Bilbao reporters that he had met with Barcelona, ​​and even used the far-fetched reason to listen to the concert of "favorite singer" Billie Eilish as an excuse. More importantly, he was not the "music friend" he said, but Juan de Dios Carrasco - an important middleman when Barcelona tried to sign Nico two years ago. After the

meeting was exposed, Tanta's attitude suddenly changed and he began to ask Barcelona to provide guarantees for player registration, which surprised the Barcelona management, thinking that things would be much simpler if they communicated frankly from the beginning. The real reason for the

deal breaking out was revealed by Laporta in an informal conversation with fans. When asked why Nico set up obstacles, Laporta clearly stated: "The agent wants a termination clause (after the player joins Barcelona), and we will not accept it. We will not spend 60 million euros to buy him and then let him leave for free."

Less than 12 hours after the conversation, Athletic Bilbao officially announced that he would renew his contract with Nico until 2035, with a new termination fee of up to 100 million euros. Barcelona responded differently to this, some were angry and some were grateful because they wanted the club to sign Luis Dias.