The Real Sociedad Gazette
Market17 Aug 2026
Real Sociedad sign Miguel Rodríguez for $10.1M
The paperwork is done: Miguel Rodríguez joins from Alavés in a deal worth $10.1M. Now comes the harder part.
Market17 Aug 2026
Real Sociedad get their man
The chase for Stipe Biuk ended with $4.3M changing hands and Valladolid out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market17 Aug 2026
Andorra come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Real Sociedad did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Miguel Rodríguez 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. Miguel Rodríguez is living that version at Real Sociedad, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Igor Zubeldia 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 Real Sociedad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jon Aramburu signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jon Aramburu and Real Sociedad agree another 4 years.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
3 academy players handed senior numbers at Real Sociedad
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
Ignacio Ríos steps up from the Real Sociedad academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ignacio Ríos 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The ground is getting bigger
The plans are signed off at a capacity of 45001. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.
In brief
- Squad A wage question at Real Sociedad
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Stipe Biuk