Unai Ropero

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Alavés
5 Dec 2026
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Marked for Unai Ropero

18 Edition

The Alavés Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Carles Aleñá runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market30 Nov 2026

Lucas Boyé wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Denis Suárez 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 Alavés this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match28 Nov 2026

Alavés find a way past Levante

Levante made Alavés work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Denis Suárez was the difference for Alavés

Marked 7.99. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Words at Alavés training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tito 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.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The Alavés Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad19 Oct 2026

Ander Guevara 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 Alavés this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Miguel Rodríguez

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad19 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Antonio Blanco

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

Match17 Oct 2026

A bad afternoon for Alavés against Girona

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

Squad19 Oct 2026

Unai Ropero 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.

Squad19 Oct 2026

A smaller club would suit Antonio Blanco now

He has had enough of the noise. Whether Alavés can be a quieter place for him, or whether the only cure is a move somewhere the phone-ins are gentler, is a question for the next few months.

In brief

3 Edition

The Alavés Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

Alavés turn down Betis for Facundo Garcés

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Graduation day at Alavés

4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Alavés

Denis Suárez 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

One of our own: Julen Cruz joins the Alavés first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Julen Cruz is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market17 Aug 2026

Alavés promote Tomás Lorenzo from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tomás Lorenzo has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market17 Aug 2026

Alavés promote Gonzalo Medina from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gonzalo Medina has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Alavés training over how hard people work
  • Squad Miguelito stays put
  • Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Alavés
  • Squad A wage question at Alavés