The Osasuna Chronicle
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
$12.6M settles it between the clubs for Lukáš Červ
Bologna have accepted the money. What Osasuna do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Too dear: Osasuna walk away from Igoh Ogbu
$28.6M was the most the club would pay and Zenit were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market23 Aug 2027
Jorge Herrando puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Osasuna, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Iker Muñoz keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Osasuna may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match21 Aug 2027
Whatever happens, Osasuna do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Osasuna
Daniel Gómez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Osasuna lose Bitello
39 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Osasuna
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Everton tell Osasuna: Svetoslav Vutsov is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
In brief
- Match Osasuna get the job done against Valencia
- Match Osasuna keep winning on the road
- Market Ignacio Vargas steps up from the Osasuna academy