Nil Núñez

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47 Edition

The Imotski Herald

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces21 Jun 2027

The mood at Imotski has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match21 Jun 2027

Imotski sink to position 10

9 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market21 Jun 2027

Dorian Fraeyman hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Imotski can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2027

Imotski bid $100.0K for Kristijan Lovrić

The offer went to Rudes this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Tempers go at Imotski

Robert Ćosić 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.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Filip Krušelj 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.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2027

Door shut on Silvio Ilinković

Imotski asked and NK Varazdin said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout21 Jun 2027

No hiding place for Davud Alibašić

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Davud Alibašić, and the manager let it.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Teo Sandev: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Imotski will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

In brief

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44 Edition

The Imotski Herald

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad31 May 2027

The knee: Teo Sandev out for 20 days

20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Imotski lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom31 May 2027

Pressure builds in the Imotski boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad31 May 2027

Robert Ćosić 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 Imotski this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 May 2027

Harvey Bardsley gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Harvey Bardsley has just signed for Imotski, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad31 May 2027

Dorian Fraeyman wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Imotski can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Market31 May 2027

A stepping stone, not a home, for Laurantino Mendes

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Imotski were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

Market31 May 2027

Imotski buy the years ahead of Nil Núñez

He is 15, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market31 May 2027

Imotski buy the years ahead of Jaime Muñoz

He is 15, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

The dugout31 May 2027

Josip Krznarić knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Josip Krznarić trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

7 Edition

The Athletic Bilbao Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market14 Sep 2026

Athletic Bilbao turn down Mallorca for Íñigo Lekue

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Age has not caught Íñigo Ruiz de Galarreta yet — 7.83

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.83 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market14 Sep 2026

Íñigo Ruiz de Galarreta wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Athletic Bilbao hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Match12 Sep 2026

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 90 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Athletic Bilbao had all but put away. Valencia will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

Match12 Sep 2026

Athletic Bilbao share the spoils with Valencia

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

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Half-satisfied: Víctor Rodríguez on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A first team debut at 14 for Nil Núñez

Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 14. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Aymeric Laporte has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Aymeric Laporte has written the date down.

Market14 Sep 2026

The Iñaki Williams story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Iñaki Williams signs something — a contract at Athletic Bilbao or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

6 Edition

The Athletic Bilbao Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market7 Sep 2026

Íñigo Ruiz de Galarreta hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Athletic Bilbao can pretend not to have heard.

Market7 Sep 2026

Not going: Alejandro Rego stays at Athletic Bilbao

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Huesca had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Deadline passes with 20 signed and 3 gone

That is the business done at Athletic Bilbao until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market7 Sep 2026

Aymeric Laporte raises the bar for Athletic Bilbao

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Athletic Bilbao heard it as anything else.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Nil Núñez signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nil Núñez and Athletic Bilbao agree another 3 years.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Athletic Bilbao take the armband off Oihan Sancet

It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Athletic Bilbao have started building around Aymeric Laporte

He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

A door opens for Aymeric Laporte

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Nico Williams takes the armband

It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.

In brief