Gerardo Martínez

Central Midfielder - Oviedo
4 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Gerardo Martínez

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The Oviedo Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Door shut on Chupete

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

Transfer targets

Deadline beats Oviedo to David Mella

The clock did what Deportivo La Coruña would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 24 in, 1 out at Oviedo

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 24 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

A row about effort at Oviedo

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Oviedo

Alberto Reina 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

Osasuna take the points off Oviedo

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Fran Vélez 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.

Player ratings

Carlos Fernández did the work nobody counts — 6.74

9 combined actions and 6.74. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

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 Gonzalo Díaz to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

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The Oviedo Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

Oviedo agree $7.0M for David Mella

The clubs have shaken hands with Deportivo La Coruña; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Market

Aarón Escandell puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Oviedo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Carlos Fernández scores twice — 8.93

Two goals and a mark of 8.93 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

A falling-out at Oviedo

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

Match

Carlos Fernández sends Oviedo past Alavés

It finished 2‑0, and it was Carlos Fernández’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Oviedo.

Squad

A row about effort at Oviedo

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

Squad

22 new faces, and Oviedo 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.

The dugout

A satisfied Gonzalo Díaz

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Gonzalo Díaz could afford to be generous.

Squad

The first one for Carlos Fernández

Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Oviedo have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.

In brief