The pearls and non-pearls of Athletic

Mikel Goti has been one of the main protagonists of the week in the red and white key. The great left-footed player from Bilbao Athletic, whose training is stamped ‘made in Lezama’, has not reached an agreement to renew with the Bilbao club. La Real, it seems, is his next destination.

The news, which is not yet official, provoked all kinds of reactions in the rojiblanco environment. Also in txuri urdin. Time, as it always does, will end up giving or taking away reasons; but what is evident at this point in the game is that neither Marcelino nor Valverde count on Goti’s competition even at the level of training with the first team.

The media noise around this footballer, with the golden glove on his left foot, is given, above all, to the fact that Real could be or will be his future destination. Nothing new on the horizon. When the reverse happens, meaning a Zubieta youth squad joins Lezama’s ranks, the same thing happens.

another case

It’s funny, in any case, that many followers and fans of Athletic wonder why this boy trained in the rojiblanca factory ended up at Real, taking it for granted that that’s the case, and not so much asking what his experienced around the world. this season at Bilbao Athletic. Beyond relegation, the rojiblanco subsidiary in the first campaign of Mikel González and Sergio Navarro at the head of the youth system of Lezama, has nothing to bring it. A real joke. Goti’s is another case in a long list that also includes names and surnames such as Bingen Arostegi, Pallarés, Izeta, Quicala, Iñigo López, Naveira, Asier Pérez, Oier López, Ewan, De Jesús, Sillero…

Areso left for Osasuna two years ago, Álvaro Núñez was last in Barça B and now we have to wait and see what happens after the collapse of the subsidiary. Times have changed. For now it is about puppies, but what will happen if Real is given payment, for example, the Sancet clause.