The Mirandés Post
Market23 Aug 2027
Mirandés sign Iker Muñoz for $5.7M
The paperwork is done: Iker Muñoz joins from Osasuna in a deal worth $5.7M. Now comes the harder part.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Pablo López
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Mehmet Şeker is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Mirandés
Igor Nikić 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A move Thomas Kompany 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. Thomas Kompany is living that version at Mirandés, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
3 academy players handed senior numbers at Mirandés
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.
The terraces23 Aug 2027
$5.7M for Iker Muñoz, and Mirandés supporters approve
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Iker Muñoz from Osasuna for $5.7M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
The terraces23 Aug 2027
The crowd has taken to Gianmarco Di Biase
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Leo Méndez joins the Mirandés first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Leo Méndez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Mirandés promote Julen Ortega from within
- Market Jaime Ramos steps up from the Mirandés academy
- Match Gianmarco Di Biase sends Mirandés past Leganés