Iker Muñoz

Defensive Midfielder - Osasuna
31 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Iker Muñoz

13 Edition

The Osasuna Chronicle

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

A brace, and Kai Havertz takes the afternoon — 8.15

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kai Havertz provided it, and the 8.15 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Aimar

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Osasuna — 7.82

1 for Iker Muñoz, marked 7.82, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

Tempers go at Osasuna

Kai Havertz 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.

Squad

Ante Budimir 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.

Match

The drought breaks for Osasuna

6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Girona were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Match

Kai Havertz sends Osasuna past Girona

It finished 3‑1, and it was Kai Havertz’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Osasuna.

The terraces

Osasuna supporters have found a favourite in Iker Muñoz

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Iker Muñoz has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout

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.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Osasuna Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Words exchanged at Osasuna

Kai Havertz 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.

Squad

500 appearances for Ante Budimir

500 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Player ratings

Aimar was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

A bad afternoon for Osasuna against Mallorca

0‑1 to Mallorca, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Jaime Diez faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Jaime Diez after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

Danilo Gómez stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Danilo Gómez and Osasuna agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

Iker Muñoz 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.

Squad

No place for Mariano Bareiro in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Osasuna are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The terraces

Everybody has an opinion about Sergio Herrera

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

In brief

4 Edition

The Osasuna Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Osasuna plan ahead with Kai Havertz from Arsenal

The most awkward business a club does is signing tomorrow's answer while today's is still in the building. Kai Havertz comes from Arsenal for exactly that purpose, and the handover will not be discussed publicly by anybody.

Squad

Words exchanged at Osasuna

Kai Havertz 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Osasuna

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ante Budimir was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

Osasuna spend $69.6M on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $69.6M for Kai Havertz, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Match

Osasuna come up short against Villarreal

Villarreal left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Aimar beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Transfer targets

Osasuna rebuffed over Stipe Biuk

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

Market

Ricardo Díaz arrives at Osasuna as the heir apparent

Every dressing room knows how to read a signing like this one. Ricardo Díaz is not here to sit and wait indefinitely, and the man whose place he has been bought to take knows it better than anyone.

The dugout

Jaime Diez answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief