The Alavés Sentinel
Market21 Aug 2028
Mikel Rodríguez puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Alavés, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market21 Aug 2028
Alavés spend $4.7M to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $4.7M has been paid because Arkaitz Mariezkurrena is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Words exchanged at Alavés
Grady Diangana and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
3 academy graduates step up at Alavés
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Nobody could get near Luca Orellano
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Door shut on Logan Costa
Alavés asked and Barcelona said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market21 Aug 2028
Alavés promote Martín Sierra from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Martín Sierra 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.
Market21 Aug 2028
Ignacio Castillo steps up from the Alavés academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ignacio Castillo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Words at Alavés training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abde 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
- Boardroom A promise the Alavés board did not keep
- The dugout The form table has caught Hugo Novoa
- The dugout Jan Nieto: “We have to be better”