The Osasuna Chronicle
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ante Budimir 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 Osasuna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Asier Bonel at Osasuna
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Asier Bonel is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ante Budimir reaches 500 appearances
500 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Jonathan Dubasin
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Aimar in the eights
A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Iker Muñoz
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Iker Muñoz, and the manager let it.
Match26 Sep 2026
Osasuna and Mallorca take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Andrés Cabrera was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Osasuna dressing room was either.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The plan did not have a place for Raúl Moro
Nobody at Osasuna is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Raúl García
- Squad The shirt is Ante Budimir’s
- Market The shop window has Iker Muñoz in it