From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Rubén Yáñez is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Rubén Yáñez: 4 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match16 Sep 2026
Cup progress for Gijón
A 1‑1 win over Cultural Leonesa, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for Gijón
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Gijón are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gijón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Rubén Pardo 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
The kick that got away from Juan Otero
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
Everybody has an opinion about Henrique Araújo
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Gijón
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Gijón are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Gijón
César Gelabert 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Gijón against Castellón
1‑3 to Castellón, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.98 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Pablo Vázquez
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Gijón have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market14 Sep 2026
Gijón bring in an old head
Borja Domínguez is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The one thing Gaspar could not do
Shots: 6, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
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Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gijón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Sep 2026
1‑2 to Deportivo La Coruña, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
217% of the income goes out in wages at Gijón
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Henrique Araújo
“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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Gaspar in the eights
A performance of 8.67 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 8.17 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
In brief
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Squad
Gaspar finally opens his account
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The terraces
The press cannot get enough of Gaspar
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Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.37, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gijón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Nacho Martín 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Granada leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad31 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Gijón have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Shots: 6, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Gijón were going nowhere until he came on.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gijón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Rubén Yáñez
“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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Real Sociedad B left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market24 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at Gijón
Rubén Pardo arrives at 34 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Shots: 5. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Market24 Aug 2026
The Rubén Yáñez story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Rubén Yáñez signs something — a contract at Gijón or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Shots: 6, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A new face in his position, and Pablo Vázquez suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Gijón have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Gijón
César Gelabert 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Canario signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Canario and Gijón agree another 1 years.
Market17 Aug 2026
He is 16, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market17 Aug 2026
He is 16, and nobody at Gijón signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market17 Aug 2026
He is 16, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market17 Aug 2026
Pol Suárez is 16, and Gijón have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Gijón heard it as anything else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” César Gelabert and Gijón agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Gijón
César Gelabert 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
César Gelabert knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and César Gelabert trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Pablo Vázquez's contract
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market10 Aug 2026
At 39, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gijón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Juan Otero commits to Gijón for another 3 years.