The Athletic Bilbao Courier
Market17 Aug 2026
Athletic Bilbao turn down Barcelona for Unai Simón
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market17 Aug 2026
Athletic Bilbao sell Álex Berenguer for $17.8M
Álex Berenguer has left for Real Madrid in a $17.8M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Pinheiro Caio gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Pinheiro Caio has just signed for Athletic Bilbao, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Athletic Bilbao
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Leo Sánchez joins the Athletic Bilbao first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Leo Sánchez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
Tomás Sanz steps up from the Athletic Bilbao academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tomás Sanz has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Athletic Bilbao turn down the training-ground plan
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Pinheiro Caio finds the pecking order at Athletic Bilbao unforgiving
He was a senior professional where he came from, with a shirt nobody questioned. Here he is one of several, and the adjustment is being made in public.
In brief
- Squad Maroan Sannadi has seen what the next man earns
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Pinheiro Caio