Jon Martín

Central Defender - Real Sociedad U20
28 Sep 2028
Thursday
Process

Marked for Jon Martín

87 Edition

The Real Sociedad Gazette

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Jon Martín wins it after the whistle should have gone

92 minutes played. Jon Martín found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Valencia went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Match

Jon Martín the difference as Real Sociedad beat Valencia

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jon Martín. 4‑3 against Valencia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Igor Zubeldia 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Real Sociedad

Gonçalo Guedes 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

Álex Remiro 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

One of those days for Carlos Fernández

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.93, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

One of those days for José Carlos Lazo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.76, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Beñat Turrientes was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.32. 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.

Squad

Mikel Oyarzábal is carrying Real Sociedad

5 goals and a season average of 7.29. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

In brief

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78 Edition

The Real Sociedad Gazette

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

José García keeps Real Sociedad 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.

Market

Aihen Muñoz moves on

Huesca pay $8.1M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Match

No end in sight to Real Sociedad's wait for a win

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

Market

Javi López asks to leave Real Sociedad

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Real Sociedad say no — this time

The offer from Huesca for Pablo Marín 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.

Squad

A move Abolfazl Zadehattar would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Abolfazl Zadehattar is living that version at Real Sociedad, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Tempers go at Real Sociedad

Igor Zubeldia 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

No clean sheets in sight for Real Sociedad

5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Match

A bad afternoon for Real Sociedad against Almería

2‑3 to Almería, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

45 Edition

The Real Sociedad Gazette

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Yangel Herrera 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 Real Sociedad, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Real Sociedad say no — this time

The offer from Corinthians for Orri Óskarsson 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Real Sociedad

Igor Zubeldia 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.

Market

Real Madrid are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Real Sociedad will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

Aitor Fraga has improved at 24, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Jon Martín

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

In brief