The Oviedo Post
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
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 targets7 Sep 2026
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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Osasuna take the points off Oviedo
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
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 ratings7 Sep 2026
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 dugout7 Sep 2026
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
- Squad Pablo Sáenz slips down the pecking order
- Squad Gerardo Martínez stays put
- The dugout The form table has caught Cláudio Ramos