OFFICIAL: Athletic announces the return of an ex-PSG player

To the not having fit in the team directed by Christophe Galtier and the urgency of Paris Saint-Germain to carry out his 'operation' gone out to be able to adjust to the limits salariales, Ander Herrera has been yielded to the Athletic Club of Bilbao after signing an agreement that contemplates the possibility that the midfield player bilbaíno can be purchased by the lions during the season 2023-24.

Of this way, Herrera will put to the orders of his new trainer, Ernesto Valverde, after the uncertainty on his situation in the French capital that had generated the diffusion several versions in the means, one of them contemplated the possibility to terminate his agreement, but has not been this the agreed formula by the clubs in question so that the bilbaíno of 33 years returned home after his go through the Manchester United and the PSG.

In his presentation with the team zurigorri has manifested to feel anxious by encarar the season 2022-23: "Have ones win crazy to begin and have imagined it many times during these weeks. It does me a lot of illusion reencontrarme with some mates with which coincided and also share changing room with some young generations that come fantastic".

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Ander Herrera, that lucirá the dorsal '23', expects to turn into an important referent in the changing room, especially for the young players: "it Is a luck be here, with people with which never have lost the contact. Here I have fellow, what follows and those that have withdrawn . They marked me and it would like me that the youngsters had this reflection in me. They did me know what is the Athletic and his philosophy. Always I have put them like example of what has to be a professional".

The Athletic, optimistic with his signing

During the act, the president of the club, Jon Uriarte, considers that Ander Herrera will be vital for put them traced in the course: "we Are very happy and ilusionados for having to Ander Herrera with us and have seen that all the fans that have come today to Saint Mamés also are it. The other day we go out to announce the ambitious aims that have for this season and think that Ander goes us to help to fulfil them. I think that we have done a very good operation.