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Liverpool's Mikel San Jose Hopeful Over Permanent Move To Athletic Bilbao
The 20-year-old defender has admitted that he would prefer to remain in the Basque Country than return to the Premier League...

Mikel San Jose rejoined Athletic Bilbao on loan from Liverpool last summer in search of first team football in order to advance his career, but after a frustrating first few months in the Basque Country it appeared that he could end his loan spell early.

However, injuries to Aitor Ocio and Ustaritz Aldekoaotalora gave him the opportunity that he craved and the 20-year-old has now established himself in Los Leones' first team. In an interview with AS, the defender has revealed that he is keen to join the Basque side on a permanent basis in the summer.

"At the moment I'm not concerning myself with this topic - there are people who are aware of the situation and I'm focused on playing," he revealed.

"What happens, happens. I'm happy here and, if it's possible, I would like to stay here.

"Things have changed a lot since I first came here. When I wasn't playing I was still happy and now I am enjoying more minutes. There's nothing that would make staying here a bad option."

A clause in San Jose's loan deal allows Athletic to sign him for €3m from Liverpool, who he joined in 2007 for a fee of around €300,000. The Pamplona-born defender never broke into the Reds' first team, and it is now likely that Athletic will take up their option to re-sign the centre back in the summer.

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this is what will happen with the rest of our promising youngsters, they will go out on loan and they know they won't have a chance to get any minutes at our first team so they will choose to leave permanantly. this has happened with hammill and anderson and i won't be surprised if it happens with players like eccleston, amoo, pacheco etc.

Not all the youngsters we buy will make it (or be given a chance to!) so if we sell on for a good profit then all well and good. And like Emp says, get some sell on clauses in there or buy backs for the future.

hey swede how are hammill and anderson doing at their new clubs, i presume they are doing very well and both in their international squads as well,
did you ever think that they are not good enought to play first team football of liverpool and thats way they were sold?? they havent exactly being setting the world alight since they left neither have any young play that has left in recent years aparty from warnock,

paul anderson is doing fine at forest and there's a good chance he will be playing premier league football next season. bottom line is rafa keeps on playing crap players and because of that our most promising youngsters will leave us. i would rather have hammill and anderson over babel and el zhar...

EMP is right.....no harm in putting a buy back clause there ...

yeah Kop...dont know the mystery behind El Zhar....Rafa's love for some players raises a few eyebrows nevertheless

Maybe he's not good enough for us? We don't get to see these lads everyday in training. Name me one player that we've let go thats starring for a team in the top division of an any league in Europe?

Alou Diarra
Diarra started out at CS Louhans-Cuiseaux, before moving to Bayern Munich in 2000. He did not play any matches for Bayern's first team, and spent a period on loan to SC Freiburg. In 2002 he was signed by Liverpool, but never played a competitive match for them, instead, he had loan spells at Le Havre AC and SC Bastia

2004– France 24 (0)

Cant blame that one on Rafa. He's hardly pulling up trees in the world of football and I doubt he'd get in our team. Same level as Lucas. Average player at best.