Andre Machado

Left Forward - Athletic Bilbao
27 Jul 2042
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826 Edition

The Athletic Bilbao Courier

26 May 2042
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom26 May 2042

Continental nights are coming to Athletic Bilbao

Qualification is secured, and next season the big floodlit nights are continental ones. For the players it is a stage; for the accounts it is a lifeline; for the supporters it is passports.

Squad26 May 2042

Sergio Santana damages knee ligaments — 18 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 18 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.

Squad26 May 2042

The season belongs to Daniel Jiménez

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Athletic Bilbao have had the benefit of it.

Squad26 May 2042

Andre Machado says Athletic Bilbao went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad26 May 2042

Tempers go at Athletic Bilbao

Nobel Mendy 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.

Market26 May 2042

Sergio Ibañez asks to leave Athletic Bilbao

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

In brief

Back issues
760 Edition

The Athletic Bilbao Courier

18 Feb 2041
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match16 Feb 2041

Athletic Bilbao bow out of the cup

Real Sociedad go through and Athletic Bilbao go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad18 Feb 2041

Unai Simón decides it from twelve yards

1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Market18 Feb 2041

Pedro Santiago is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Athletic Bilbao is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad18 Feb 2041

Tempers go at Athletic Bilbao

Unai Simón 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.

Squad18 Feb 2041

Words at Athletic Bilbao training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michal Kroupa 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.

Market18 Feb 2041

The Ekene Chukwuani conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Espanyol will make the call about Ekene Chukwuani this week. Athletic Bilbao have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Match16 Feb 2041

The goals have deserted Athletic Bilbao

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Athletic Bilbao can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad18 Feb 2041

The manager makes an example of Andrew Murphy

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings18 Feb 2041

Nothing got past Marc Bernal

17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

In brief

758 Edition

The Athletic Bilbao Courier

4 Feb 2041
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market4 Feb 2041

Athletic Bilbao say no — this time

The offer from Albacete for Aimar was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad4 Feb 2041

3 goals for Ekene Chukwuani

The match ball belongs to Ekene Chukwuani, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Market4 Feb 2041

Ekene Chukwuani attracts admirers

The name of Ekene Chukwuani has come up in conversations Athletic Bilbao were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad4 Feb 2041

Andre Machado says Athletic Bilbao went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad4 Feb 2041

Tempers go at Athletic Bilbao

Nobel Mendy 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.

Market4 Feb 2041

Rubén Márquez is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Athletic Bilbao is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market4 Feb 2041

Yegor Plotnikov’s move to Valencia falls through

The deal that would have taken Yegor Plotnikov to Valencia has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Athletic Bilbao with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad4 Feb 2041

Words at Athletic Bilbao training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aitor Paredes 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.

Match2 Feb 2041

Ekene Chukwuani sends Athletic Bilbao past Zaragoza

It finished 3‑2, and it was Ekene Chukwuani’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Athletic Bilbao.

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