The Alavés Sentinel
Market8 Jul 2030
Levante come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Alavés did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market8 Jul 2030
Andre Grey asks to leave Alavés
“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.
Squad8 Jul 2030
Tempers go at Alavés
Ander Guevara 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.
Squad8 Jul 2030
Miguel Rodríguez 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.
Boardroom8 Jul 2030
7 new boys at the Alavés academy
Signed today, seen by nobody for years, and one of them may one day be the reason the club exists. That is the whole of the argument for an academy, and it is a good one.
Squad8 Jul 2030
Tobías Andrada wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Alavés will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
Market8 Jul 2030
The Antonio Sivera talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Alavés know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout8 Jul 2030
The manager makes an example of Jorge Gil
“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.
The dugout8 Jul 2030
When it matters, Manuel Monzeglio plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Squad Adrián Pica remains an outsider
- The dugout Ville Koski asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout A door opens for Emiliano Ellacopulos