Klippybo
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- Apr 7, 2009
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JANUARY
Copa del Rey QF 1st Leg
Athletic Bilbao 4 (Goikoetxea 36, 52, 90pen, De Marcos 59)
Atletico Madrid 1 (Pedro Obiang 1)
A great result this and should see us through into the semis.
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Athletic Bilbao 3 (De Marcos 25, 38, Susaeta 63)
Deportivo La Coruna 1 (Sola 50)
Another win and I am still unbeaten. San Jose had a goal disallowed.
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Copa del Rey QF 2nd Leg
Atletico Madrid 3 (Diego Costa 16, 44, Finnbogason 69)
Athletic Bilbao 1 (Zubizarreta 46)
(Athletic Bilbao win 5-4 on aggregate)
I took a risk and rested all of my first picks and we made it through - just! So my first defeat at Bilbao ends up being a victory lol
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Athletic Bilbao 6 (Susaeta 31, 66, Seoane og59, San Jose 68, Muniain 79, 84)
Real Madrid 1 (Higuain 38)
UNBELIEVABLE!!!! This is what happens when I take charge of Bilbao!!! We absolutely slaughtered them and even had Xabi Alonso sent-off after 58min with the scores at 1-1. They had an untried (and rubbish) 16y/o keeper in goal who scored an OG for us but it was still a great performance and result.
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Copa del Rey SF 1st Leg
Athletic Bilbao 3 (Goikoetxea 8, 90, Susaeta 62)
Villarreal 1 (Mario 37)
Goikoetxea missed a penalty here unfortunately. He is on fire at the moment!
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Espanyol 0
Athletic Bilbao 0
After all the excitement in the past few games this was quite a non-event.
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Copa del Rey SF 2nd Leg
Villarreal 3 (Juan Carlos 19, 42, Pizarro 34)
Athletic Bilbao 2 (Susaeta 6, De Marcos 119)
(AET, Athletic Bilbao win 5-4 on aggregate)
Several of my players were a booking away from missing the final so I rested them all here. It was however almost a major mistake. Ironically enough we have set the record for goals conceded in the competition - 17!!!
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SUMMARY
An unbelievable month with all sorts happening. Be it thumping the sides from Madrid, reaching a cup final or breaking the club transfer record twice! It all happened in a mad 4 weeks.
The results you can see above so I will move straight on to the players brought in. I had arranged several deals already. I admit to cheating slightly for the first one as when I knew I was leaving Newcastle I transfer listed Jorge Zubizarreta and I picked him up for a bargain £550,000. I then shelled out £2.5m to Mallorca for Jose Manuel Gutierrez, £1.2m to Osasuna for Benat Larrinaga and £675,000 to Elche for young keeper Moha. Finally on loan (to make him Basque) I brought in Wilson off of Valencia.
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I had also agreed to break the club record transfer fee paid by signing Jose from Sevilla for £10m. This 16y/o will be world class I am sure and along with Zubizarreta and Larrinaga will go straight into the first team squad.
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Finally I shelled out a whopping £31m to bring Javi Martinez back to the club from Bayern Munich. He requested a transfer and I was shocked to see him interested in joining us so I snapped him up ASAP and he made his debut in the thrashing of Real Madrid.
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There were departures though. Anders Iturraspe left for Sevilla for £3.3m and Raul Garcia left to go to Espanyol for £1.5m while Toquero and Saborit left for a total of £1.5m so I didnt rake in much really.
Finally, we are still in the hunt for that Champions League spot and I am now fluent in Spanish. I havent got to the basic level of Japanese yet though - I will leave that post after the World Cup next summer so I better get fluent by then!
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PLAYER OF THE MONTH
MARKEL SUSAETA
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JAPAN
Friendly
Wales 4 (Cassidy 3, 14, Bale 30, Ledley 58)
Japan 3 (Hamamoto 50, 74, Kagawa 60)
I was livid at half-time and we made it respectable but I am still disappointed.
