The Osasuna Chronicle
Market17 Aug 2026
Osasuna say no — this time
The offer from Granada for Alejandro Catena was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market17 Aug 2026
Álvaro Fernández is a Osasuna player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jorge Meré gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jorge Meré has just signed for Osasuna, and for once the answer mattered.
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
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Osasuna promote Izei Rey from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Izei Rey has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market17 Aug 2026
Alberto Gallardo steps up from the Osasuna academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alberto Gallardo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Osasuna training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jon Moncayola 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.
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.
In brief
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Jorge Meré
- Squad A wage question at Osasuna