The Osasuna Chronicle
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Aimar runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sebastian Mai
53 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Osasuna lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Jorge Meré breaks a bone — 24 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market23 Aug 2027
Business is business: Abel Bretones goes
Granada paid $15.7M and Osasuna took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market23 Aug 2027
Getafe 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Flavien-Enzo Boyomo raises the bar for Osasuna
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Osasuna heard it as anything else.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Osasuna
Rubén García 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
Real improvement from Christ Okou at Osasuna
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Christ Okou is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 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.
In brief
- Market Nicolás Ortega steps up from the Osasuna academy
- Boardroom A promise the Osasuna board did not keep
- Match Osasuna and Cultural Leonesa cancel each other out