Brian Rodríguez

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29 Mar 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Brian Rodríguez

130 Edition

The Oviedo Post

22 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Pablo Sáenz beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Transfer targets

Robertino Giacomini is a medical away from Oviedo

The deal with Alavés 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.

Boardroom

François-Joseph Sollacaro has agreed to leave Oviedo for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

A falling-out at Oviedo

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

Squad

Estanis Pedrola 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.

Transfer targets

Basel tell Oviedo: Adrian Grbić 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

Getafe take the points off Oviedo

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

No hiding place for Brian Rodríguez

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

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 0‑1 Interim Coach left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

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127 Edition

The Oviedo Post

1 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dani Villahermosa

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

Market

Brian Rodríguez hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Oviedo can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Oviedo refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 34 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad

Brahim Díaz honoured for the season

The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Oviedo had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.

The dugout

Alonso Hernández keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Oviedo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Oviedo count the cost of losing Kwasi Sibo

52 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Nacho Vidal 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 Oviedo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

No place for Brahim Díaz in the plan

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

Player ratings

Estanis Pedrola 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.

In brief

118 Edition

The Oviedo Post

30 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dani Villahermosa

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

Squad

A fracture rules Vicente Vidal out for 32 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Oviedo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout

Brian Rodríguez keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Oviedo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Brahim Díaz beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

François-Joseph Sollacaro has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Oviedo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

A falling-out at Oviedo

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

Squad

Estanis Pedrola 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

Oviedo find a way past Albacete

Albacete made Oviedo work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The dugout

Juan Iglesias 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.

In brief

  • Player ratings Ninety minutes of Pablo Sáenz at his very best
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Norman Díaz
101 Edition

The Oviedo Post

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Oviedo go down

It is arithmetic now, and the arithmetic is done. A summer of hard questions starts early at Oviedo, and next season's fixture list reads very differently.

Squad

The knee: Lucas Medina out for 62 days

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

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Oviedo boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Oviedo sell Ilyas Chaira for $9.0M

Ilyas Chaira has left for Sevilla in a $9.0M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

The dugout

Jacobo says Oviedo went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Brian Rodríguez gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Brian Rodríguez has just signed for Oviedo, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Joan Cruz hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Oviedo can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Brahim Díaz raises the bar for Oviedo

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Oviedo heard it as anything else.

Transfer targets

Iké Ugbo is a medical away from Oviedo

The deal with Sheffield Wednesday 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.

In brief

42 Edition

The Córdoba Post

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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

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

Market

Theo hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Córdoba can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Christian Carracedo 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 Córdoba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

100 goals in the shirt for Sergi Guardiola

100 for the club now, each one filed in somebody’s memory with a date and a scoreline. Numbers like this are what supporters argue about in twenty years.

Squad

Juan Gutiérrez 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

Cádiz take the points off Córdoba

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Guilherme Fernandes

“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.

Squad

Brian Rodríguez signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Brian Rodríguez commits to Córdoba for another 3 years.

The dugout

Aimar Rojas: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief