The Alavés Sentinel
Market8 Feb 2027
Toni Martínez 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Alavés
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market8 Feb 2027
Arenas Club 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Alavés
Jon Pacheco 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
3 matches without a goal for Alavés
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Real Sociedad tell Alavés: Unai Marrero is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market8 Feb 2027
Alavés may not be able to give Facundo Garcés what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Facundo Garcés wants continental football; whether Alavés can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Aimar Muñoz pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Denis Suárez 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.
In brief
- Squad A smaller club would suit Antonio Blanco now
- The dugout Denis Suárez dropped after a run of poor form
- The dugout The manager’s verdict