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...

Amorim has sent a warning to his players by insisting that "anything is possible" despite being favourites to finish off Athletic Club in the semifinal

All the facts and figures as Tottenham host Bodø/Glimt and Manchester United travel to Bilbao to face Athletic Club By WhoScored Manchester United travel to the Basque Country for the second time this season. They can expect a tougher test in the semi-finals than they had against Real Sociedad in the last-16. United won that tie 5-2 on aggregate, Bruno Fernandes scoring a fine hat-trick at Old Trafford in one of their best performances of the season. In a season of many lows, the Europa League has given United some solace – and an opportunity to qualify for Europe next season. Continue reading...

Manchester United have been handed a boost ahead of their Europa League semifinal against Athletic Club after Amad Diallo and Matthijs de Ligt returned to training.

Better days must lie ahead for Manchester United. Otherwise, things have gone truly pear-shaped. A Sunday where their fans lived vicariously through dreams of Tottenham delaying Liverpool’s title celebrations or Nottingham Forest stopping City winning another FA Cup counts as a ground-zero ebb, even considering the decline and fall of the United empire. Losing against a 10-man Bournemouth would have completed an air of helpless, listless doom, only for Rasmus Højlund to rescue a barely believable – or deserved – point. Reports of Ruben Amorim playing the kids ahead of Athletic Club on Thursday had proved exaggerated. Beyond the absentees Joshua Zirkzee and Diogo Dalot, the selection was as strong as can be expected from the Frankenstein-like horror of United’s bolted-together squad. Continue reading...

Carlo Ancelotti praised Federico Valverde as "the key" after the midfielder's 93rd-minute goal gave Real Madrid a dramatic 1-0 win over Athletic Club on Sunday to react to their Champions League exit in midweek.

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...