Ornstein transfer latest: Nico Williams, Ekitike, Osimhen

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Nico Williams has attracted attention from all over Europe but now looks likely to end up at either Barcelona or Bayern Munich.

Matt Davies Adams is joined by The Athletic's David Ornstein and Seb Stafford-Bloor to discuss the latest on Williams, the futures of Xavi Simons and Hugo Ekitike and find out why nobody in the Premier League seems to want Victor Osimhen.

Host: Matt Davies-Adams

Guests: David Ornstein, Seb Stafford-Bloor

Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead

Producer: Jay Beale

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC Podcast Network.
0:08.4	Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast. I'm Matt Davis Adams.
0:12.8	Nico Williams has attracted attention from all over Europe, but now looks likely to end up at either Barcelona or Bayern Munich.
0:19.6	We'll discuss that, the futures of Zavi Simons and Hugo Ekateke,
0:23.5	and find out why nobody in the Premier League seems to want Victor Ossiman.
0:29.4	Joining me today, we have the Athletics Football correspondent David Ornstein.
0:33.2	Hello, David.
0:33.9	Hi, guys. How you doing?
0:34.8	Really well, thank you.
0:35.9	We've also got with us our German correspondent, Seb Staffer.
0:38.8	You okay, Seb?
0:40.0	I sure am.
0:40.7	Hello.
0:41.3	Excellent.
0:42.1	Right, Athletic Clubs, Nico Williams has attracted the interest of various Premier League clubs.
0:47.4	David, what's the latest on where he might end up?
0:49.8	Yeah, this has been one of the most talked about players pretty much in world football map for some time
0:54.4	and rightly so because he's a fantastic talent such a young age 22 has got his whole career ahead of
1:01.6	him and he's turned the heads of some of the biggest clubs in the game the truth is we don't know
1:08.1	where he's going to end up at this point in time, but a direction of travel is becoming a little bit clearer.
1:13.9	We take the Premier League teams, the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea and others, have looked at him for quite a considerable period of time.
1:22.4	But for whatever reason, they haven't been able to push ahead with a deal, whether that be the finances
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