Lucas Torró

Defensive Midfielder - Osasuna
4 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Lucas Torró

5 Edition

The Osasuna Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Alejandro Catena 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.

Player ratings

Ante Budimir, 35, rolls back the years — 7.88

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.88 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Tempers go at Osasuna

Flavien-Enzo Boyomo 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.

Boardroom

Osasuna agree a free transfer for Jonatan Goya

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Transfer targets

Osasuna rebuffed over Yan Diomandé

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Real Madrid have kept their man, and Osasuna go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

8 new faces, and Osasuna are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Match

Ante Budimir rescues a point for Osasuna

It needed Ante Budimir to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Sevilla, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jonathan Dubasin

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Osasuna pick somebody else ahead of Diego Rico

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Osasuna Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Business is business: Raúl García goes

Cádiz paid $17.2M and Osasuna took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Transfer targets

Betis tell Osasuna: Aitor Ruibal 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.

Market

Jorge Herrando asks to leave Osasuna

“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.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Osasuna walk away from João Cancelo

$4.0M was the most the club would pay and Barcelona 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.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Lucas Torró delivers — 7.83

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Lucas Torró scored, was marked 7.83, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Match

Villarreal take the points off Osasuna

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Match

No time for Villarreal to settle

The goal that put Villarreal ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Osasuna equalised, 1 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

The dugout

Ignacio Fernández faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ignacio Fernández after 2‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

Sergio Herrera wants out of the spotlight

The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.

In brief

3 Edition

The Osasuna Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

No deal for Antony at that price

Osasuna offered $32.0M; Betis said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Market

Osasuna turn down Sevilla for Aimar

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Osasuna bid $3.7M for João Cancelo

The offer went to Barcelona this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Sem Westerveld

Osasuna asked and Zaragoza said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Cádiz expected to open talks for Raúl García

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Osasuna will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Boardroom

No investment in the facilities at Osasuna

Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Moi Gómez

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Villarreal in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

Squad

Lucas Torró has seen what the next man earns

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Osasuna that is a harder question to answer.

Squad

Romain Del Castillo still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Osasuna would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

In brief