ANDuri Berchiche extends his contract for Athletic. Athletic announced this Tuesday that the Gipuzkoan has signed the renewal until June 2024. The left-handed side, who has not yet made his debut this season because of a pubalgia that forced him to undergo surgery, had the renewal on track for a long time. behind.. The agreement was already signed, as the photograph attests, with a radiant sun, when this Tuesday is a rainy day in Bizkaia. The extension is for two seasons since his current relationship ended on June 30 and he will sign without a termination clause.
The side signed for Athletic in July 2018 from PSG with a termination clause of 100 million euros. The club of Ibaigane paid 25 million euros for the transfer. In his first campaigns as a player in the Athletic first team, he has played 106 games and scored 4 goals. On his way to 32 years of age, which will be his birthday in February, Yuri has a long professional career with a past in Tottenham, Valladolid, Real Unión, Real Sociedad, Eibar and PSG before joining Athletic, a club for which he has already played in categories. lower.
From the first moment, I have felt very loved. I am very happy to be able to extend the contract for two years
“I want to thank the Club and the fans, they have been four years full of emotions. From the first moment, I have felt very loved. I am very happy to be able to extend the contract for two years. I feel at home, there are still things to do“, has stood out in an interview granted to the club.
WITHDRAWAL SINCE APRIL
Yuri is out of Marcelino’s lineups since last April due to pubalgia. The winger started his recovery with a conservative treatment, but shortly after starting the preseason it was decided that he should undergo surgery after consulting with the French specialist Gilles Reboul. The rojiblanco player was intervened on July 22 at the Clinique du Sport Paris, where, according to the medical report, he underwent “a reinforcement in the bilateral abdominal wall and a tenotomy-myotomy on the right adductor longus.”
The player faces the last leg of a recovery which should bring him back to training with the group near the November FIFA window. A regular starter whenever he has been fit, the gap he has left on the left-back has been filled by Balenziaga, who has started every league game except in the rotation against Rayo, when Marcelino switched sides to Lekue.
OTHER NEGOTIATIONS
The circumstances of the game have wanted that Balenziaga (33 years) is fixed the season of the end of his contract. From Marcos (32 years old) and Cap (29 years old) are the other full-backs who end their relationship in June The first two renewed their contracts for a season last February and this season they will have to sit down again in front of the sports management to discuss their future. Capa negotiated the expansion at the same time as his colleagues, but without reaching an agreement and since then there have been hardly any conversations.
Dani García (31 years old) He is also a footballer in the process of renovation. The one from Zumarraga is one of Marcelino’s leading midfielders. The former Eibar, who signed for Athletic with the illusion of playing in Europe with the rojiblanco team, has many options of being the next to sign the contract extension.
