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The Athletic Bilbao Courier

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market24 Apr 2028

Ricardo Ryller has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Athletic Bilbao they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad24 Apr 2028

Unai Simón in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Athletic Bilbao this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom24 Apr 2028

Ricardo Ryller signs for Betis while still at Athletic Bilbao

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Ricardo Ryller has agreed terms with Betis for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad24 Apr 2028

Dani Vivian falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match22 Apr 2028

Mikel Jauregizar the difference as Athletic Bilbao beat Deportivo La Coruña

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mikel Jauregizar. 3‑1 against Deportivo La Coruña, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings24 Apr 2028

Nico Williams runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings24 Apr 2028

Mikel Jauregizar in the eights

A performance of 8.74 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings24 Apr 2028

Dani Vivian in the eights

A performance of 8.66 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match22 Apr 2028

Athletic Bilbao make home a hard place to visit

8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

In brief

  • Squad Unai Simón has become a man the manager trusts
  • Squad The manager makes an example of Javi Rueda
  • Player ratings An afternoon Adama will want back
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The Athletic Bilbao Courier

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match26 Apr 2027

Athletic Bilbao are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 79 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Player ratings26 Apr 2027

Nobody could get near Mikel Jauregizar

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings26 Apr 2027

Aitor Paredes pops up at the right end — 7.51

7.51, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad26 Apr 2027

Tempers go at Athletic Bilbao

Unai Simón was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad26 Apr 2027

Words at Athletic Bilbao training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aitor Paredes is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad26 Apr 2027

Dani Vivian gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad26 Apr 2027

When it matters, Nico Williams plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Match24 Apr 2027

Athletic Bilbao share the spoils with Alavés

A 1‑1 draw with Alavés leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Player ratings26 Apr 2027

An afternoon Adama will want back

Marked 4.43. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

In brief