Lucas Sosa

Left Forward - Athletic Bilbao
12 Sep 2026
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Marked for Lucas Sosa

4 Edition

The Athletic Bilbao Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nico Williams beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 49. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market24 Aug 2026

Iker Varela puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Athletic Bilbao, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Athletic Bilbao

Unai Simón and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Athletic Bilbao rebuffed over Djéné Dakonam

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Getafe have kept their man, and Athletic Bilbao go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market24 Aug 2026

No place for Íñigo Lekue in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Íñigo Lekue has his answer from Athletic Bilbao; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Lucas Sosa signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lucas Sosa commits to Athletic Bilbao for another 3 years.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

Nil Bravo on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Nil Bravo after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Match22 Aug 2026

Point won or two lost for Athletic Bilbao?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Girona? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

Aymeric Laporte does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Athletic Bilbao Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

Business is business: Mikel Jauregizar goes

Barcelona paid $35.9M and Athletic Bilbao took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market17 Aug 2026

Athletic Bilbao turn down Bayern Munich 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 sign Ignacio Perruzzi for $4.9M

The paperwork is done: Ignacio Perruzzi joins from San Lorenzo in a deal worth $4.9M. Now comes the harder part.

Market17 Aug 2026

Business is business: Álex Berenguer goes

Malmo FF paid $5.3M and Athletic Bilbao took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Nico Paz arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Nico Paz has, at Athletic Bilbao, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Athletic Bilbao

Unai Simón and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Athletic Bilbao rebuffed over Reece James

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Chelsea have kept their man, and Athletic Bilbao go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad17 Aug 2026

5 new faces, and Athletic Bilbao are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad17 Aug 2026

The formation has left Nico Paz behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Athletic Bilbao will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief

2 Edition

The Athletic Bilbao Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

$36.0M settles it between the clubs for Nico Paz

Como have accepted the money. What Athletic Bilbao do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market10 Aug 2026

Terms done: Mikel Jauregizar is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Barcelona waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Athletic Bilbao is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market10 Aug 2026

Real Madrid come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Athletic Bilbao did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Unai Simón stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Unai Simón and Athletic Bilbao agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Iñaki Williams 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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Athletic Bilbao rebuffed over Omar El Hilali

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Espanyol have kept their man, and Athletic Bilbao go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Lucas Sosa joins the Athletic Bilbao first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lucas Sosa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Unai Simón 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 Unai Simón trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief