{"id":204138,"date":"2025-06-22T03:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/204138\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T03:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:25:09","slug":"spain-boss-luis-de-la-fuente-gives-his-verdict-on-nico-williams-proposed-move-to-barcelona-to-link-up-with-lamine-yamal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/204138\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain boss Luis de la Fuente gives his verdict on Nico Williams\u2019 proposed move to Barcelona to link up with Lamine Yamal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"dOazsp\">Spain boss Luis de la Fuente has shared his thoughts on Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams who could be team-mates at Barcelona next season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fBS6As\">The duo possess a great relationship on and off the pitch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/2025\/6\/19\/24452036\/barcelona-agree-personal-terms-with-nico-williams-on-six-year-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with the rumor mill convinced Williams is set to join Yamal at Barceloan this summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"GE2CjF\">De la Fuente has been asked about the speculation and didn\u2019t really want to get into it but did say he thinks Williams has a great future ahead of him.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"mWoIVV\">\u201cAnother genius. We\u2019ll see what happens; it\u2019s just football,\u201d he told Marca. <\/p>\n<p id=\"6h8zJv\">\u201cBut Nico is another player who will make history and become a legend. It\u2019s an honor to have such young and talented players. <\/p>\n<p id=\"A845dX\">\u201cThey also bring us a lot of joy, and I wish them the best of luck both personally and professionally. \u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"lMHmfD\">The Spain boss also had more words of praise for Yamal and says Barcelona\u2019s teenager is improving rapidly.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"JTeKKF\">\u201cHe\u2019s definitely growing at an impressive level. I repeat: he\u2019ll be a legend. He undoubtedly has to improve in some areas,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p id=\"eQLKHs\">\u201cWe have to take care of him, but he\u2019s growing a lot, and he should be aware that his teammates on the national team and at club level are the ones who will help him become a legend. He\u2019s a sensational kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"dYqrDW\">Yamal and Williams are currently enjoying some time off but may be back together soon, either with Barcelona or in September with Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain boss Luis de la Fuente has shared his thoughts on Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams who could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[48427,199,53811,48429,48430,82254,48428,7889,81850,2000,299,75925,163,81851,63465,30773,48425,82252,54611,81849,14366,29284,254,82251,104,6093,9987,47198,4857,6095,82253],"class_list":{"0":"post-204138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-barca","9":"tag-barcelona","10":"tag-barcelona-internationals","11":"tag-barcelona-la-liga","12":"tag-barcelona-team-news","13":"tag-barcelona-women","14":"tag-blaugranes","15":"tag-boss","16":"tag-de","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-europe","19":"tag-fc-barcelona-transfer-rumors-news","20":"tag-front-page","21":"tag-fuente","22":"tag-gives","23":"tag-his","24":"tag-la","25":"tag-lamine","26":"tag-link","27":"tag-luis","28":"tag-move","29":"tag-nico","30":"tag-on","31":"tag-proposed","32":"tag-spain","33":"tag-to","34":"tag-up","35":"tag-verdict","36":"tag-williams","37":"tag-with","38":"tag-yamal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114724885350529829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}