Luke Wright

Defensive Midfielder - Oviedo
3 Feb 2036
Sunday
Process

Marked for Luke Wright

493 Edition

The Oviedo Post

7 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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.

Boardroom

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.

Market

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.

Match

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.

Market

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 The request is on a desk at Oviedo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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

Back issues
447 Edition

The Oviedo Post

19 Feb 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Álex Cardero

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.

Squad

Tempers go at Oviedo

Alberto Reina 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

Words at Oviedo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Estanis Pedrola is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

A bad afternoon for Oviedo against Almería

0‑1 to Almería, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Jacobo

“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.

Player ratings

Estanis Pedrola runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

416 Edition

The Oviedo Post

17 Jul 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Will Collar 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

Kwasi Sibo 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Luke Wright at Oviedo

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Luke Wright is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

In brief