Miguel Hidalgo

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47 Edition

The Athletic Bilbao Courier

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad21 Jun 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sergio Busquets

62 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Athletic Bilbao lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match21 Jun 2027

Athletic Bilbao refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 86 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad21 Jun 2027

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.

Market21 Jun 2027

Castellón 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.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Álex Padilla is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market21 Jun 2027

Córdoba watching Luka Gutiérrez

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Athletic Bilbao have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief

Back issues
46 Edition

The Athletic Bilbao Courier

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Jun 2027

Sergio Busquets damages knee ligaments — 70 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 70 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market14 Jun 2027

Athletic Bilbao sign Eray Cömert for $9.4M

The paperwork is done: Eray Cömert joins from Valencia in a deal worth $9.4M. Now comes the harder part.

Squad14 Jun 2027

A move Eray Cömert would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Eray Cömert is living that version at Athletic Bilbao, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Oihan Sancet 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.

Market14 Jun 2027

Córdoba 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.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Aitor Paredes 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.

In brief