The Oviedo Post
Match5 Jan 2036
10 matches without a win for Oviedo
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Oviedo are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom7 Jan 2036
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Oviedo can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market7 Jan 2036
Elche come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Oviedo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match5 Jan 2036
5 matches without a goal for Oviedo
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Market7 Jan 2036
Luke Wright 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 The request is on a desk at Oviedo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Jan 2036
Alberto Reina stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alberto Reina and Oviedo agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Jan 2036
Tempers go at Oviedo
Álex Cardero 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.
Squad7 Jan 2036
Alberto Reina 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.
Match5 Jan 2036
A bad afternoon for Oviedo against Getafe
0‑1 to Getafe, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
- Squad Alberto Reina knocks on the manager’s door
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Estanis Pedrola
- Boardroom Oviedo pull $6.2M back off the table