The one that is coming in Athletic

The panorama that is glimpsed around Athletic is bleak. The Bilbao club is shortly going to start an electoral process with two candidates, except for a last-minute change, who are already being beaten up without having even opened their mouths to explain what their main lines and their travel companions are. Before, with the assembly of the statutes shoehorned in the manner and manner of that of the animation stands, Aitor Elizegi will consider a historic mandate closed. Nobody before had had to direct the Ibaigane entity in the midst of a global pandemic. The fact that the club is now better than when he took it sounds like cheap propaganda and out of step with harsh reality.

The rojiblanco first team, except for a last-minute miracle, will stay another year without entering European competition. Someone should explain once and for all that competing with this philosophy and in the current situation is a real Bilbao event. Those who will surely brand this point of view as a lack of ambition, conformism or something similar, would do better to analyze and delve into it.

Until not long ago Marcelino was a top coach. Now, on the other hand, there are members and fans who consider that a replacement on the bench is necessary. Whoever follows or whoever comes, the problem will be very similar. The room for maneuver that Athletic has when it comes to strengthening is what it is and Lezama gives for what he gives, which is not little. The team’s top scorer, for the second consecutive year, has scored eight goals.

It is time to call things by their name, to grab the bull by the horns and to stop selling and buying smoke. This club is unique for the good and for the bad. And philosophy, by the way, is fine as it is.

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