Today’s rumours prefer baking Viktor Gyökeres may or may not have spat the dummy out after reportedly refusing to hold clear-the-air talks with Sporting over his desire to move. Arsenal and Manchester United have been linked with the Sweden international but the Portuguese side want a wheelbarrow full of cash for his services, which is putting off potential suitors. Gyökeres wants the club to lower their demands but if the striker does not get what he wants, then he could go on strike to really show his employer who is boss. In a further blow to Arsenal, the Athletic Club winger Nico Williams has told anyone who will listen that he only wants to join Barcelona this summer. It is now up to Barça to look down the back of the sofa for the cash to pay for him. If the Spain international does head from the Basque Country to Catalonia, it will end any chance of Marcus Rashford joining the Spanish champions. Rashford might need to turn to Italy where Napoli, Milan and Como are interested in helping him escape from Manchester United. Continue reading...

The forward, who has kept faith with Atléti despite limited opportunities, silenced the Cathedral with a dramatic finish Ángel Correa’s friends like to say that his name’s the only saintly thing about him but the man with the scarred heart has a habit of appearing in moments of need, and so it was. Saturday night at the Cathedral, the storm had passed, the sky had opened and suddenly there he was before them, 48,617 people witnessing him fly through the middle, past Julen Agirrezabala, and roll into an empty net to deliver Athletic Club’s first defeat at San Mames in more than a year. The clock read 91.54. Correa had only been on the pitch for four minutes and he didn’t think he would be there at all, but it was done. Call it a miracle if you like, or something else. Continue reading...

Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona have intensified their efforts to sign Nico Williams from Athletic Club. Transfer Talk is LIVE with the latest.

Athletic Club coach Ernesto Valverde has insisted Spain star Nico Williams is happy at the club amid interest from Barcelona.

Barcelona will continue their ambition to get Athletic Club's Nico Williams in the summer transfer window. Transfer Talk has the latest.

Bilbao is used to being decorated in stripes, the flags of their beloved Athletic Club hang from every other window, but on Saturday the city found itself swamped in less familiar colours, Barcelona’s red and blue filling every bar and populating every square as travelling fans celebrated beating Lyon in a Champions League final at the third time of asking. It was their talismanic duo, playmaker Aitana Bonmatí and superstar Alexia Putellas, who delivered in front of 50,827 fans. Bonmatí’s effort taking a deflection off Vanessa Gilles to take it past Christiane Endler shortly after the hour mark, before Putellas added the second a minute after coming on deep into injury time. It was deserved, the French champions were unable to handle the guile of the world’s best passers of the ball. Continue reading...

Barcelona will look to get Athletic Club's Nico Williams to improve their attacking depth. Transfer Talk has the latest.

Atlético Madrid have won an appeal to overturn a two-game partial stadium ban imposed by the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) after Athletic Club player Nico Williams suffered racist abuse during a league game.

Club handed two-game partial closure and £17,000 fineAthletic Bilbao player hit out at ‘stupid people’ after incident Atlético Madrid have been ordered to partially close their south stand for two matches by the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) after Athletic Club player Nico Williams suffered racist abuse in Saturday’s La Liga game. The referee, Juan Marténez Munuera, stopped the match in the 36th minute as part of La Liga’s protocol against racism after he heard racist abuse directed at the 21-year-old Spain international, who was born in Pamplona to Ghanaian parents. Continue reading...

Even a VAR-inflicted 1-1 draw against Villarreal did not spoil the Basque club’s celebrations after a first major trophy in 40 years They had been down to Seville 907km away, 100,000 of them, and come back with their first major honour in 40 years, finally won well after midnight. They had made a victory parade of the traffic jam home, the Roman road known as the Silver Route turned red and white. And they had taken the trophy to the tree of Gernika, symbol of their people. There was the impromptu street party, a police fine imposed for the mobile disco heading through the old town, the whole band playing, and the gabarra, which is only a barge but is everything: a river cruise they had longed for. Then there were the six-hour queues to see the Copa del Rey, if only to check this was real. For seven days they had celebrated. And on the eighth day there was just one thing left for Athletic Club to do, the perfect close to the week of their lives: bring everyone back to San Mamés, bring the Copa del Rey too, and beat Villarreal. After 40 years waiting, six final defeats, four in 15 years – 1985, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2020, 2021 – it was just right. Even the man supposed to mess it up for them said so. Marcelino García Toral, the visiting coach on Sunday night and Athletic’s manager when they lost the last two of those finals, thanked “destiny” for the chance to be there. “I know what this means,” he said. Continue reading...

A gabarra is a barge, but in Bilbao, it's much more than that: a legend of Athletic passed on through the generations, a celebration of silverware.

Fans lined the streets of Bilbao on Thursday to celebrate Athletic Club's Copa del Rey win, with the players crossing the city's Nervion river by boat.

Police in Bilbao have opened an inquiry into four Athletic Club players after the squad held an impromptu street party to celebrate their Copa del Rey win, the news agency EFE reported on Wednesday.

Man United shrugged off poor form and injuries to hurt rivals Liverpool. Elsewhere, Bayern Munich's malaise gets deeper, and Athletic Club enjoy their Copa del Rey glory.