Javi Rueda

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26 Edition

The Osasuna Chronicle

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market25 Jan 2027

Jon Moncayola asks to leave Osasuna

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Osasuna

Ante Budimir was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Words at Osasuna training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergio Busquets is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match23 Jan 2027

Raúl García the difference as Osasuna beat Betis

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Raúl García. 1‑0 against Betis, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad25 Jan 2027

The manager has not finished forgetting Rubén García's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Market25 Jan 2027

No place for Juan Cruz in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Juan Cruz has his answer from Osasuna; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Squad25 Jan 2027

The manager makes an example of Iker Muñoz

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market25 Jan 2027

Abel Bretones placed on the list

Osasuna have made Abel Bretones available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Player ratings25 Jan 2027

A day to forget for Rubén García

Marked 5.10, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief

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25 Edition

The Celta Herald

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market18 Jan 2027

Celta turn down Zaragoza for Hugo Sotelo

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Celta

Ionuţ Radu was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market18 Jan 2027

Granada watching Carlos Domínguez

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Celta have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Words at Celta training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ilaix Moriba is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom18 Jan 2027

Celta agree a free transfer for Diego Murillo

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Match16 Jan 2027

Celta see off Levante

Three points for Celta, 1‑0 the final word against Levante in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

The afternoon belonged to Borja Iglesias

A mark of 7.65, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Market18 Jan 2027

Osasuna are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Celta will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad18 Jan 2027

The manager makes an example of Aleix Febas

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

20 Edition

The Celta Herald

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 Dec 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Iván Villar

32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Celta lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match12 Dec 2026

Celta run riot against Valencia

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

A brace, and Ferran Jutglà takes the afternoon — 8.46

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ferran Jutglà provided it, and the 8.46 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Ionuţ Radu in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Celta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

Iago Aspas runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market14 Dec 2026

Celta may not be able to give Javi Rueda what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Javi Rueda wants continental football; whether Celta can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

Ilaix Moriba shuts the door

Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Franco Cervi falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Javi Rodríguez is still paying for one afternoon at Celta

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief