The Athletic Bilbao Courier
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Door shut on Marvin Keller
Athletic Bilbao asked and Sporting CP said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market23 Aug 2027
Athletic Bilbao sell Iker Varela for $1.6M
Iker Varela has left for Celta in a $1.6M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Match21 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Athletic Bilbao
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad23 Aug 2027
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.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Oihan Sancet was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
6 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Athletic Bilbao promote Pedro Muñoz from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pedro Muñoz has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Iván Gutiérrez joins the Athletic Bilbao first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Iván Gutiérrez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market23 Aug 2027
Enzo Álvarez steps up from the Athletic Bilbao academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Enzo Álvarez 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.
In brief
- Match Girona take the points off Athletic Bilbao
- The dugout Sergio Arribas gets it from the manager
- Boardroom A promise the Athletic Bilbao board did not keep