https://x.com/fabrizioromano/status/1938293775522050272?s=46
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I like their style
Good enuff for me. Move him to the players section.
Barcelona are honestly just a massive joke. I hate how players have such an affinity for these dickhead Spanish clubs.
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Bum mentality
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Got a funny feeling heās not joining us now.
Lool
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How does an 8 year contract run to 2035? Unless itās an additional 8 years?
I canāt knock the decision but the contract length is ridiculous
Just catching up but unless Iām mistaken, Bilbao beat everyone to it and dropped this out of the blue.
https://x.com/AthleticClub/status/1941052419464733034
As much as I think Nico should be playing for a bigger club, this is the type of stuff that would have me ecstatic had it happened say with Fabregas.
Big 
to Barca.
You canāt knock the loyalty. Fair play to him.
We canāt criticise him when we would love Saka for example to do the same
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Would be nice to see him at the Emiratesā¦Cup in a few weeks.
Lol 
You gotta be kidding me 
Barca
I doubt itās a loyalty thing.
He wouldnāt go so far in the negotiations if he never wanted to join them, he would have refused the transfer much earlier in that case, at the start basically.
Itās a money thing. Itās either his demands not being satisfied or Barcaās payment structure towards Athletic (probably not being able to pay the clause over 10 years or so lol). Or both.
Honestly itās just money and lack of ambition in my eyes. Heās been flirting with Barcelona for years now, heās probably come to the realisation that Barcelona cannot afford him and heās tied himself down to another 8 years of crazy money at his hometown club.
Just seen @Pires post and I pretty much echo his sentiment.
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Players who are actually loyal to their club refuse these kinds of offers right away so you barely even hear about them (usually many years later).
As said, they wouldnāt be negotiating for a month now if he loved Athletic so much. Money was obviously the obstacle in the end (in one way or another).
Donāt care. His numbers in La Liga are pretty much what Martinelli is giving us in a much better league.
And yeah, heās made sure heās ruled out of a move to one of the big clubs. Thatās the level of his ambition, can call it loyalty I suppose, just like Kane and Spurs :ramsdale: