Regarding Marcelino, Iñaki Arechabaleta indicated that “I have spoken with him. Great coach, he has made Athletic competitive again, he has surely lacked finishing and he is an alternative. In no case did I tell him that he was not the first option, I recognized his work. We are clear about the coaching model that Athletic must have: intensity, aggressiveness, direct play. And there are few coaches in the world. We haven’t given it much thought. The coach for June 10-15 has to be defined”.
Regarding Lezama, this pre-candidate pointed out that “the project is done and worked on. We want the people who are in Lezama to have a resume. It is not enough to be a player, you have to be trained. We want to have specialists”
Regarding possible signings, Arechabaleta pointed out that “we are moving, looking at the market that is not very large at the moment and in some cases there could be a pre-contract, but we have to be ambitious.”
On the subject of the salaries of the lions, the pre-candidate stressed that “I come from a professional world in which contracts have a fixed and variable part. In football it is not a constant. If Athletic has a very important dependency and the player is not affected, it cannot be “and he clarified that” we have not been with the CVC. It was a correct club decision, we have a lot of money in the box. We are financially solvent.”
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The name of Julen Jon, the son of Julen Guerrero who plays for Madrid’s youth team, came up. “It is an option that we are studying. It is going to be analyzed and if it is possible we will go for him, as for some other kid that we have detected in some other Spanish club. Regarding the renewal of Iñigo Martínez, he indicated that “it is an issue that for now corresponds to the current managers” and regarding the Athletic women’s coach, he revealed that “yes, we are going to have Iraia. Great professional, great coach. She has been a flag for Athletic”.
