Marked for Nil Cortés
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings21 Jan 2036
Successful dribbles: 43. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Jan 2036
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match19 Jan 2036
Still nobody has beaten Osasuna
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market21 Jan 2036
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Osasuna is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom21 Jan 2036
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad21 Jan 2036
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.
Market21 Jan 2036
The deal that would have taken Enrique Castro to Las Palmas has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Osasuna with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad21 Jan 2036
Words at Osasuna training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gian Nardelli 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.
Match19 Jan 2036
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Crisis
Player ratings17 Dec 2035
Successful dribbles: 76. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match15 Dec 2035
14 matches without a win for Osasuna
The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Osasuna are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings17 Dec 2035
Age has not caught Cédric Teguia yet — 8.05
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.05 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market17 Dec 2035
“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.
Squad17 Dec 2035
Joel Medina 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.
Market17 Dec 2035
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad17 Dec 2035
Gian Nardelli falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad17 Dec 2035
“The easiest signature of my career.” Damir Orsic and Osasuna agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad17 Dec 2035
The manager makes an example of Rockson Yeboah
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Crisis
Match8 Dec 2035
13 matches without a win for Osasuna
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Osasuna are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings10 Dec 2035
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Dec 2035
Only the photograph left for Rockson Yeboah
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rockson Yeboah will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Osasuna the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad10 Dec 2035
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.
Squad10 Dec 2035
Words at Osasuna training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gian Nardelli 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.
Squad10 Dec 2035
Nil Cortés dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Uneasy
Match24 Nov 2035
No end in sight to Osasuna's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Osasuna has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad26 Nov 2035
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad26 Nov 2035
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.
Player ratings26 Nov 2035
Marked 8.19 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad26 Nov 2035
Words at Osasuna training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gian Nardelli 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.
Player ratings26 Nov 2035
The cruellest goal, and it is Nil Cortés's
A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Osasuna will not try tonight.
Squad26 Nov 2035
The manager makes an example of Gian Nardelli
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match24 Nov 2035
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market26 Nov 2035
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Daniel Martín signs something — a contract at Osasuna or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
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Boardroom
The Osasuna production line keeps running
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Player ratings
Nobody could get near Cédric Teguia
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match17 Nov 2035
The wait goes on for Osasuna
10 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.
Match19 Nov 2035
Osasuna sink to position 19
10 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Player ratings19 Nov 2035
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market19 Nov 2035
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad19 Nov 2035
Jon Moncayola 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.
Match17 Nov 2035
3 matches without a goal for Osasuna
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match17 Nov 2035
A bad afternoon for Osasuna against Gijón
0‑1 to Gijón, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad19 Nov 2035
Gian Nardelli falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad19 Nov 2035
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Oct 2035
Daniel Lorenzo damages knee ligaments — 29 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 29 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad15 Oct 2035
Cristian Rivero: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Osasuna have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market15 Oct 2035
Only the photograph left for Rockson Yeboah
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rockson Yeboah will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Osasuna the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match13 Oct 2035
The wait goes on for Osasuna
4 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.
Squad15 Oct 2035
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.
Player ratings15 Oct 2035
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Jul 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Seydine N'Diaye
55 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 Jul 2035
A fracture rules Patrik Kubů out for 65 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Osasuna will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad23 Jul 2035
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Osasuna may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
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Crisis
Squad25 Jun 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Seydine N'Diaye
83 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.
Squad25 Jun 2035
A fracture rules Patrik Kubů out for 93 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Osasuna will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Édouard Garcia: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Osasuna have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
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Crisis
Squad11 Jun 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Seydine N'Diaye
97 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.
The terraces11 Jun 2035
The mood at Osasuna has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad11 Jun 2035
A fracture rules Patrik Kubů out for 107 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Osasuna will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
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Crisis
Squad30 Apr 2035
Jon Moncayola damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad30 Apr 2035
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings30 Apr 2035
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Apr 2035
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.
Squad30 Apr 2035
“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.
Match28 Apr 2035
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings2 Apr 2035
Successful dribbles: 45. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Apr 2035
Jon Moncayola damages knee ligaments — 53 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 53 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom2 Apr 2035
The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.
Match31 Mar 2035
No end in sight to Osasuna's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Osasuna has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad2 Apr 2035
Jon Moncayola 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.
Squad2 Apr 2035
Alejandro Catena falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Mar 2035
Jon Moncayola damages knee ligaments — 60 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 60 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad26 Mar 2035
Nil Cortés: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Osasuna have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match24 Mar 2035
No end in sight to Osasuna's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Osasuna has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings26 Mar 2035
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Mar 2035
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.
Squad26 Mar 2035
Words at Osasuna training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejandro Catena 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.
Player ratings26 Mar 2035
Marked 8.35 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match24 Mar 2035
A 1‑1 draw with Huesca leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market26 Mar 2035
6 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Osasuna could get for him.
In brief
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Market
The Daniel Martín talk will not go away
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Boardroom
The Osasuna production line keeps running
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The terraces
The press have found their man in Joel Medina
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings22 Jan 2035
Successful dribbles: 46. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad22 Jan 2035
Jon Moncayola damages knee ligaments — 123 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 123 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The terraces22 Jan 2035
The mood at Osasuna has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad22 Jan 2035
Cédric Teguia 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.
Squad22 Jan 2035
Alejandro Catena falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad22 Jan 2035
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match23 Dec 2034
16 matches without a win for Osasuna
The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around Osasuna are no longer polite ones.
Squad25 Dec 2034
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jon Moncayola
151 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.
The terraces25 Dec 2034
Anger at Osasuna spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad25 Dec 2034
Cédric Teguia breaks a bone — 34 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match25 Dec 2034
Every point is an argument now for Osasuna
Position 19 and 13 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad25 Dec 2034
Alejandro Catena 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.
Player ratings25 Dec 2034
Ninety minutes of Joel Medina at his very best
Marked 8.13. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Osasuna.
Squad25 Dec 2034
Words at Osasuna training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergio Esteban 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.
Match23 Dec 2034
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match18 Nov 2034
The wait goes on for Osasuna
11 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.
Match18 Nov 2034
8 matches without a goal for Osasuna
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 8 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Player ratings20 Nov 2034
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market20 Nov 2034
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Osasuna is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad20 Nov 2034
Alejandro Catena falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad20 Nov 2034
Joel Medina 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.
Market20 Nov 2034
Ruslan Pichienko wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Osasuna hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad20 Nov 2034
“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.
Squad20 Nov 2034
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Uneasy
Match14 Oct 2034
No end in sight to Osasuna's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Osasuna has to find a result from somewhere.
Boardroom16 Oct 2034
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Álex Méndez has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad16 Oct 2034
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.
Match14 Oct 2034
4 matches without a goal for Osasuna
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad16 Oct 2034
Words at Osasuna training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejandro Catena 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.
Player ratings16 Oct 2034
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad16 Oct 2034
31 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad16 Oct 2034
25 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market16 Oct 2034
At 36, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Sep 2034
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.
Squad18 Sep 2034
Words at Osasuna training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejandro Catena 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.
Player ratings18 Sep 2034
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad18 Sep 2034
The medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for Santiago García, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad18 Sep 2034
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gian Nardelli, and the manager let it.
Match16 Sep 2034
Point won or two lost for Osasuna?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Oviedo? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Uneasy
The terraces7 Aug 2034
Anger at Osasuna spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Boardroom7 Aug 2034
Osasuna interviewed the field and appointed the corridor: Interim Coach keeps the job he had been doing in all but title. Sometimes the safest pair of hands is the one already holding the wheel.
Squad7 Aug 2034
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Lorenzo
30 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.
Squad7 Aug 2034
609 appearances across 16 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad7 Aug 2034
Daniel Martín: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Osasuna have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad7 Aug 2034
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alejandro Catena commits to Osasuna for another 2 years.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Jul 2034
Alejandro Catena 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.
Squad24 Jul 2034
Nil Cortés is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad24 Jul 2034
A move Juan Santana 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. Juan Santana is living that version at Osasuna, and it tends to show in the first month.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces10 Jul 2034
Anger at Osasuna spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad10 Jul 2034
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad10 Jul 2034
Alejandro Catena 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.
Squad10 Jul 2034
Fernando Fuentes is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Boardroom10 Jul 2034
Osasuna still without a manager
9 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.
Squad10 Jul 2034
At 28 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Market10 Jul 2034
Burgos are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Osasuna will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market10 Jul 2034
Osasuna have made Davit Kvilitaia available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Market10 Jul 2034
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Daniel López leaves Osasuna the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces12 Jun 2034
Anger at Osasuna spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad12 Jun 2034
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.
Squad12 Jun 2034
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jesús Peñaloza commits to Osasuna for another 4 years.
Squad12 Jun 2034
Words at Osasuna training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejandro Catena 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.
Market12 Jun 2034
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.
Market12 Jun 2034
The David Jiménez conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Burgos will make the call about David Jiménez this week. Osasuna have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.