The three Athletic positions that are very fair

ernesto valverde He will start work this Thursday with three very balanced positions of troops: the goal, the axis of defense and the left side. Txingurri needs to step up to conduct the preseason for goalkeepers Oier Gastesiwho played for Basconia last season and will move to Bilbao Athletic next season, and Alex Padilla in the absence of first simon and Julen Agirrezabala. The former will be on holiday for a few days after playing in the final round of the Nations League and the latter is still mired in a European Under-21 dispute.

The same happens with the rear axis. Txingurri has only one center-back from the first team, Dani Viviandue to refusals to Yeswho is still recovering from groin surgery he underwent before the end of Liga 22-23, and Aitor Paredesholding with santi denia in the aforementioned championship. The coach will go up to train the center-back of the subsidiary First Egiluzsomething he did not do in the latter part of the previous campaign when he was also fair to the person of Barakaldo and inigo martinez low

The left-back position also suffers from the difficulty of physical contractions. Yuri Berchiche He was injured in the last league game due to a very hard tackle from Daniel Carvajal that he broke his fibula and Imanol Garcia de Albeniz He continues to recover from a torn right Achilles tendon sustained while playing for Eibar in the Second Division. Valverde At the beginning of the preparation, he only had a specific left back, Miguel Barandallaeven last season first gomez He played the last games in that position under the command of Alex Pallares. Also, he only had a born midfielder –holy-, but in that position you can put Galarreta Ruiz either Ander Herrera and even the midfielder from Bermeo who was already in the first team dynamics at the end of last season.