The Deportivo La Coruña Sentinel
Market31 Aug 2026
Celta come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Deportivo La Coruña did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from David Mella at 21 — 8.24
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. David Mella did not need any: 8.24, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Pedro Ortiz gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Pedro Ortiz has just signed for Deportivo La Coruña, and for once the answer mattered.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Yeremay runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Deportivo La Coruña
Leo Román 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Yeremay 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Mohammed Bouldini keeps on missing
Shots: 9, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Market31 Aug 2026
Eric Puerto attracts admirers
The name of Eric Puerto has come up in conversations Deportivo La Coruña were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad31 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Deportivo La Coruña 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.
In brief
- Match Deportivo La Coruña share the spoils with Zaragoza
- Player ratings An afternoon Stoichkov will want back
- Market Deportivo La Coruña pick up Pedro Ortiz for nothing