The Osasuna Chronicle
Market8 Mar 2027
Abel Bretones hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Osasuna can pretend not to have heard.
Match6 Mar 2027
The wait goes on for Osasuna
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Ante Budimir signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ante Budimir and Osasuna agree another 3 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Osasuna
Ante Budimir 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Júnior Neves 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
Aimar’s goal not enough for Osasuna
Aimar scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Girona, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Market8 Mar 2027
Raúl García wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Market8 Mar 2027
Osasuna promote Pablo Campos from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pablo Campos 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Cristian Sanz joins the Osasuna first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Cristian Sanz is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Squad Víctor Meseguer falls out with a teammate over standards
- Player ratings Jonathan Dubasin runs at them all day
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Sergio Herrera