Athletic closed the summer transfer market as the ninth LaLiga club to invest the most money in renewing their squad. The entity led by Jon Uriarte has allocated 15 million to close its deal with Braga for Álvaro Djaló and that’s it. Atlético, Villarreal, Barça, Real Madrid, Real, Girona, Betis and Valladolid spent more money than the red and white institutions in this chapter.
“Our priority objective is to repeat the European qualification through the League, in a context of maximum demand by playing four competitions, and without setting limits to either the Cup, the Super Cup, or the Europa League,” Uriarte himself said a week ago in Lezama in time to define the goals of the men’s first team.
That same day, Mikel González, director of football of the Bilbao club, highlighted the arrival of Djaló, Gorosabel and Nuñez, the three new players from outside Lezama. “These three additions give us a very large staff size, which we believe is necessary to face the very difficult times ahead,” said González.
The fact is that reviewing the Athletic squads from past and current seasons, also taking as a reference the data published about it on the official website of the Bilbao club, it is clear that on a quantitative level there are more casualties than to new ones from one. year in the next part. From the squad from last year, with only two competitions in dispute, nine lions appeared. The signings chapter, however, extends to seven players.
The new ones
Athletic has Álex Padilla in its squad for the 2024-25 season, while just a year ago Unai Simón and Agirrezabala appeared in the goalkeeper section. At the level of the defensive line, the additions of Gorosabel, Nuñez and Adama count, the latter having a license in principle from Bilbao Athletic. In the midfielder line, no incorporation counts as Jauregizar, who has just been given a first team number, was already listed in this same section in the previous campaign (not the start).
In the forward demarcation, finally, three new names will appear compared to those collected a year ago so far. The aforementioned Djaló was with Martón and Nico Serrano on loan. A total of seven registrations, in other words, will go district by district.
The one who didn’t follow
In the squad corresponding to the 2023-24 season, as already mentioned, only the currently injured Unai Simón and Agirrezabala appeared as goalkeepers. The defeat in the defensive line affects Imanol, a left-back who left the red and white discipline to sign for Sparta Prague, who suffered a serious knee injury in one of his first games at his new club, and Egiluz , a center back who made his debut as a lion in the Cup against Rubí and left on loan with Mirandés.
Nolaskoain may also be on the list of defenders, although he appears on the list of midfielders with Dani García, now at Olympiacos de Mendilibar. The most important and significant losses, four in total, affect the forward. Muniain, Villalibre, Raúl García and Adu Ares are no longer Athletic players, although the latter has been loaned to Zaragoza.
Source: La Verdad
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