The Athletic Bilbao Courier
Player ratings28 Oct 2030
Both of them Nico Williams's — 8.36
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.36, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match26 Oct 2030
Athletic Bilbao make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Athletic Bilbao have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad28 Oct 2030
Tempers go at Athletic Bilbao
Oihan Sancet 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.
Squad28 Oct 2030
Words at Athletic Bilbao training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nico Williams 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.
Market28 Oct 2030
Mateusz Skrzypczak 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.
Match26 Oct 2030
Athletic Bilbao get the job done against Celta
A 3‑1 win over Celta, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad28 Oct 2030
Athletic Bilbao lose Jesús Rodríguez
25 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings28 Oct 2030
Nobody could get near Ez Abde
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Oct 2030
Oihan Sancet in the eights
A performance of 8.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Squad Nicolás Gallardo signs on for more
- Market The Nico Williams story refuses to die
- Market Aymeric Laporte runs his contract down