The Athletic Bilbao Courier
Match17 Feb 2029
5 matches without a win for Athletic Bilbao
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Athletic Bilbao are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Ferran Jutglà signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ferran Jutglà commits to Athletic Bilbao for another 4 years.
Squad19 Feb 2029
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.
Transfer targets19 Feb 2029
Sevilla tell Athletic Bilbao: Dominik Livaković is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Player ratings19 Feb 2029
Nico Williams runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Feb 2029
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Pablo Ramírez
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Athletic Bilbao will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
No hiding place for Dani Requena
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dani Requena, and the manager let it.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
When it matters, Unai Simón plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
Ferran Jutglà knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Athletic Bilbao, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Match Athletic Bilbao share the spoils with Real Sociedad
- The dugout Tomás Pérez: “We have to be better”
- Market Nico Williams linked with a move away