Quote (ampoo @ 8 Aug 2018 16:47)
yep, never relegated since 1928 and still only using homegrown players
amazing really
They're not all homegrown. For instance they signed Iñigo Martínez from basque rivals Real Sociedad for 40M€ this past january. They only sign "basque" players though (speech marks are there, as they use a pretty broad sense to define basque... they include all of the historical basque regions, like Navarra and the French Basque regions, and they also consider eligible the non-basque players that have at least a parent or grandparent born in these regions).
Not taking anything away from them though, it's still very impressive what they've achieved with all these limitations... never relegated, 8 Liga titles, 23 Copas, 2 EL finals... even if they haven't won anything since the 1980s, the fact that they are still hanging on there in Bosman era football is insane.