27 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process
21 Edition

The Huesca Courier

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Dani Jiménez out for 18 days

18 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Huesca lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Juan Pérez stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

5 matches without a win for Huesca

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Huesca are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Junior Arias 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 Huesca this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Huesca come up short against Racing Santander

Racing Santander left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Leo Diez left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

Dani Jiménez knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Huesca, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

Huesca pick somebody else ahead of Guido Nogar

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.

The dugout

Sergi Enrich left out for tactical reasons at Huesca

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

Back issues
20 Edition

The Huesca Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dani Jiménez 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.

Squad

6 saves: Juan Pérez was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

The wait goes on for Huesca

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.

Squad

A falling-out at Huesca

Junior Arias and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Huesca promote Rubén Esteban from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rubén Esteban has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Roberto Cano steps up from the Huesca academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Roberto Cano has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Junior Arias's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

No hiding place for Guido Nogar

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guido Nogar, and the manager let it.

Match

Honours even between Huesca and Gijón

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

  • The dugout Dani Jiménez asks for a word with the manager
  • The dugout Leo Diez: “We have to be better”
  • Looking ahead Huesca take on the side everybody is chasing
19 Edition

The Huesca Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dani Jiménez damages knee ligaments — 32 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 32 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Huesca

Óscar Sielva and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Efe Aghama runs at them all day

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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Salva Ruiz

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Salva Ruiz, and the manager let it.

Match

Zaragoza snatch it back from Huesca

A goal on 93 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Squad

The month belongs to Dani Ojeda

The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Huesca have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.

Player ratings

Ignacio Laquintana takes the honours

Marked 7.93 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Huesca had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Dani Ojeda

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Dani Ojeda has come out of that comparison in the side, and Huesca have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Match

Huesca share the spoils with Zaragoza

A 1‑1 draw with Zaragoza leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Guido Nogar
  • Looking ahead Yann Kembo faces his old club
18 Edition

The Huesca Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dani Jiménez damages knee ligaments — 39 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 39 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.

Player ratings

A brace, and Dani Ojeda takes the afternoon — 9.08

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Dani Ojeda provided it, and the 9.08 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Juan Pérez stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad

Óscar Sielva 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 Huesca this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Dani Ojeda is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.27 with 12 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Player ratings

Alejandro Cantero in the eights

A performance of 8.87 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Huesca caught on 93 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Las Palmas scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Match

Huesca share the spoils with Las Palmas

A 3‑3 draw with Las Palmas leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Boardroom

Huesca counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Huesca now.

In brief

  • The dugout Half-satisfied: Leo Diez on the draw
  • The dugout Guido Nogar dropped after a run of poor form
  • The dugout The plan did not have a place for Junior Arias
17 Edition

The Huesca Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Dani Jiménez damages knee ligaments — 46 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 46 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Huesca

Óscar Sielva 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.

Match

Huesca come up short against Málaga

Málaga left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Goal number 50 for Dani Ojeda

50 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.

Squad

Dani Ojeda is carrying Huesca

10 goals and a season average of 7.20. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

The dugout

Leo Diez faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Leo Diez after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Player ratings

Alejandro Cantero beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

No hiding place for Cristian Herrera

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cristian Herrera, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Huesca pick somebody else ahead of Guido Nogar

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

16 Edition

The Huesca Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dani Jiménez 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.

Squad

Juan Pérez keeps Huesca in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

A falling-out at Huesca

Junior Arias and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ignacio Laquintana

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

No hiding place for Junior Arias

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Junior Arias, and the manager let it.

Match

The drought breaks for Huesca

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

Match

Alejandro Cantero the difference as Huesca beat Mirandés

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Alejandro Cantero. 1‑0 against Mirandés, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout

Junior Arias is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Leo Diez, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

In brief

15 Edition

The Huesca Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dani Jiménez

61 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Huesca lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

A 2-goal lead gone for Huesca

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Ceuta kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Huesca will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Squad

A day Dani Ojeda will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Match

No end in sight to Huesca's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Huesca has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A falling-out at Huesca

Óscar Sielva and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Dani Ojeda

Marked 9.20 — 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.

Market

Huesca promote Luis Sánchez from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luis Sánchez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Huesca promote Jorge Núñez from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jorge Núñez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Match

Dani Ojeda rescues a point for Huesca

It needed Dani Ojeda to find the net to bring anything home at all: 3‑3 against Ceuta, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Player ratings Efe Aghama runs at them all day
  • Squad The weekend belonged to Dani Ojeda
14 Edition

The Huesca Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dani Jiménez

69 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Huesca lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

No end in sight to Huesca's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Huesca has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Huesca

Junior Arias 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.

Match

Huesca come up short against Leganés

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

The dugout

Dani Jiménez 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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Leo Diez to a room that had heard them before.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Alejandro Cantero

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom

Belts tighten at Huesca

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

The dugout

The plan did not have a place for Sergi Enrich

Nobody at Huesca 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

  • Looking ahead Efe Aghama faces his old club
  • The dugout When it matters, Liberto plays
  • Squad Ro Abajas has had enough of the bench
13 Edition

The Huesca Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dani Jiménez damages knee ligaments — 77 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 77 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Huesca

Efe Aghama 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 ratings

Nobody could get near Dani Ojeda

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Huesca

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Cristian Herrera

“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.

The dugout

Dani Jiménez knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dani Jiménez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Leo Diez chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

Squad

A ban for Jesús Álvarez

One booking too many, and a game watched from the stand. Huesca lose him for the most avoidable reason in the sport.

Match

No goals between Huesca and Castellón

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Castellón will be the happier side with the point.

In brief

12 Edition

The Huesca Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dani Jiménez

84 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Huesca lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Dani Ojeda scores twice — 8.64

Two goals and a mark of 8.64 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Words exchanged at Huesca

Óscar Sielva 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.

Match

Deportivo La Coruña take the points off Huesca

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Salva Ruiz

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Salva Ruiz, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Leo Diez faces the questions

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

The dugout

Junior Arias is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout

The form table has caught Guido Nogar

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Alejandro Cantero

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

11 Edition

The Huesca Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Dani Jiménez out for 92 days

92 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Huesca lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

A falling-out at Huesca

Óscar Sielva and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Huesca promote Markel Suárez from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Markel Suárez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Sergio Jiménez steps up from the Huesca academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sergio Jiménez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Player ratings

Ignacio Laquintana was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. 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

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 95 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Huesca had all but put away. Granada will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

Match

Jordi Martín rescues a point for Huesca

It needed Jordi Martín to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Granada, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Guido Nogar

“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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Leo Diez was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the Huesca dressing room was either.

In brief

10 Edition

The Huesca Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Dani Jiménez out for 101 days

101 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Huesca lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Juan Pérez keeps Huesca in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at Huesca

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Player ratings

Óscar Sielva, 35, rolls back the years — 7.99

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.99 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Óscar Sielva 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 Huesca this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Huesca see off Real Sociedad B

Three points for Huesca, 2‑1 the final word against Real Sociedad B in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Dani Ojeda was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.58. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout

Leo Diez has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Leo Diez on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

Squad

“I want to play”: Junior Arias speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

In brief

9 Edition

The Huesca Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dani Jiménez

109 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Huesca lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Junior Arias 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 Huesca this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Huesca come up short against Valladolid

Valladolid left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Ignacio Laquintana 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Huesca

10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

Leo Diez: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Market

No place for Guido Nogar in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Guido Nogar has his answer from Huesca; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ro Abajas

“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.

The dugout

When it matters, Liberto plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

8 Edition

The Huesca Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Dani Jiménez out for 117 days

117 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Huesca lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Huesca out of the cup

Racing Santander ended it 1‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Match

Huesca throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Eibar the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Huesca will enjoy reviewing.

Player ratings

A brace, and Sergi Enrich takes the afternoon — 8.01

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Sergi Enrich provided it, and the 8.01 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Words exchanged at Huesca

Óscar Sielva 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.

Match

Huesca come up short against Eibar

Eibar left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Ignacio Laquintana was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Jamal Thiaré

“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.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Douglas Aurélio — 6.79

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 6.79, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Player ratings A costly moment from Junior Arias
  • The dugout Junior Arias is still paying for one afternoon at Huesca
7 Edition

The Huesca Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Dani Jiménez damages knee ligaments — 126 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 126 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.

Transfer targets

Monterrey tell Huesca: Hirving Lainez 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Huesca

Junior Arias 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.

Market

One of our own: Luken Marín joins the Huesca first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luken Marín is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Huesca promote Santiago Vázquez from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Santiago Vázquez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Match

Huesca find a way past Cultural Leonesa

Cultural Leonesa made Huesca work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Dani Ojeda at his very best

Marked 8.00. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Huesca.

The dugout

Junior Arias 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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Leo Diez, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

In brief

6 Edition

The Huesca Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dani Jiménez damages knee ligaments — 134 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 134 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.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 19 in, 1 out at Huesca

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 19 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets

Huesca rebuffed over Alemão

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

Squad

Tempers go at Huesca

Junior Arias 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

Appearance number 100 for Juan Pérez

100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

Squad

Jamal Thiaré has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Huesca will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

The dugout

No hiding place for Cristian Herrera

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cristian Herrera, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Dani Jiménez asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Boardroom

Huesca can only buy what they sell

Nobody has barred the club from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every incoming name comes with an outgoing one attached.

In brief

5 Edition

The Huesca Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Dani Jiménez out for 142 days

142 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Huesca lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Tempers go at Huesca

Óscar Sielva 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.

Transfer targets

Betis tell Huesca: Ezequiel Ávila 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.

Match

Huesca come up short against Albacete

Albacete left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Huesca are still strangers to each other

10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

Leo Diez: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad

The formation has left Junior Arias behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Huesca will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout

Jamal Thiaré knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jamal Thiaré trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Looking ahead

Dani Ojeda goes back to face Burgos

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Dani Ojeda’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Huesca needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

4 Edition

The Huesca Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Dani Jiménez out for 149 days

149 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Huesca lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Huesca turn down Rayo Vallecano for Óscar Sielva

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

Market

Diego Aznar turns Lokeren down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Transfer targets

Junior Arias is a medical away from Huesca

The deal with Penarol is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

Kyrylo Fesiun will not be coming to Huesca

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Shakhtar is saying, and nobody at Huesca is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Words exchanged at Huesca

Óscar Sielva 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.

Transfer targets

No deal for Ez Abde at that price

Huesca offered $230.0K; 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.

Match

Almería take the points off Huesca

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

Transfer targets

Huesca rebuffed over Nahuel Ulariaga

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

In brief

3 Edition

The Huesca Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Huesca say no — this time

The offer from Aalborg for Diego Aznar was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets

Huesca baulk at the price for Mario Cantero

Burgos wanted more than $930.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

A falling-out at Huesca

Óscar Sielva and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Huesca rebuffed over Pelayo

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

Transfer targets

Huesca try to borrow Alberto Ocejo

Santos Laguna have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Huesca try to borrow Kyrylo Fesiun

Shakhtar have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

No place for Felipe Obradovich in the new shape

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

Looking ahead

Cristian Herrera faces his old club

Almería next, and one man in the Huesca dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Squad

A season on the outside for Jamal Thiaré

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Huesca has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

In brief

2 Edition

The Huesca Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Felipe Obradovich arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Felipe Obradovich has, at Huesca, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets

Huesca bid $930.0K for Mario Cantero

The offer went to Burgos 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.

The terraces

$1.8M for Felipe Obradovich, and Huesca supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Felipe Obradovich from Ferro Carril Oeste for $1.8M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Market

One of our own: Sergio Esteban joins the Huesca first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sergio Esteban is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Huesca promote Fernando Martín from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fernando Martín has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Iván Vargas steps up from the Huesca academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Iván Vargas has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Huesca promote Lucas Fuentes from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lucas Fuentes has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad

A falling-out at Huesca

Quique Fornos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Diego Aznar signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Diego Aznar commits to Huesca for another 4 years.

In brief

1 Edition

The Huesca Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

An offer of $1.8M for Felipe Obradovich

Huesca have gone to Ferro Carril Oeste with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

Óscar Sielva signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Óscar Sielva and Huesca agree another 2 years.

Squad

Óscar Sielva 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 Huesca this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Grasshopper tell Huesca: Nikolas Muci 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

Huesca and Óscar Sielva are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Market

The clock runs on Dani Jiménez's contract

24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Jamal Thiaré is in the works

Huesca have made the call to Columbus Crew. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad

Huesca are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Squad

Dani Jiménez 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 Huesca that is a harder question to answer.

In brief