The Alavés Sentinel
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Alavés rebuffed over Antony
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Betis have kept their man, and Alavés go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Abde moves on
Deportivo La Coruña pay $4.1M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market10 Aug 2026
Antonio Blanco wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Alavés hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Lucas Boyé signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lucas Boyé and Alavés agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Toni Martínez 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Toni Martínez
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Toni Martínez, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Leo Gutiérrez joins the Alavés first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Leo Gutiérrez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Alavés promote Iván Cortés from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Iván Cortés 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Alavés
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mariano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Squad Alavés are still strangers to each other
- The dugout Lucas Boyé asks for a word with the manager
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Jeremía Recoba