Marked for Juan Giménez
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Osasuna may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad7 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Osasuna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ante Budimir 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.
In brief
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Player ratings
Aimar runs at them all day
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Squad
Aimar named in the team of the month
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Match
Aimar rescues a point for Osasuna
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Player ratings
The pass was always on for Raúl Moro
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
There were 12 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match7 Nov 2026
A European night to remember for Osasuna
0‑0 against Puskas Akademia, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Match4 Nov 2026
Osasuna bow out of the cup
Zaragoza go through and Osasuna go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match7 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for Osasuna
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Osasuna are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Osasuna — 7.50
1 for Juan Giménez, marked 7.50, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ante Budimir 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 Osasuna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Lucas Torró left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Lucas Torró will call it something else in private.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Danel Sinani gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ante Budimir 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 Osasuna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Danel Sinani. 1‑0 against Sevilla, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Sergio Busquets trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Villarreal come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Osasuna did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Svetoslav Vutsov would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Svetoslav Vutsov is living that version at Osasuna, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market17 Aug 2026
Every dressing room knows how to read a signing like this one. Svetoslav Vutsov is not here to sit and wait indefinitely, and the man whose place he has been bought to take knows it better than anyone.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ante Budimir 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 Osasuna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
3 academy players handed senior numbers at Osasuna
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Aug 2026
Juan Giménez is 20, and Osasuna have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market17 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Ferrer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Osasuna
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Osasuna turn down the training-ground plan
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Juan Giménez has left for Osasuna in a $2.4M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rosario Central this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Rosario Central training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enzo Giménez 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.