Iván Alejo

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26 Dec 2026
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Marked for Iván Alejo

18 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad30 Nov 2026

Clément Michelin breaks a bone — 93 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 93 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Kaynan: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Valladolid have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Stanko Jurić runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match5 Sep 2026

Valladolid taken apart

0‑3 to Córdoba, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market7 Sep 2026

Amath N'Diaye wants more than Valladolid are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Sergi Canós

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Stanko Jurić 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 Valladolid this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Iván Alejo

“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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Víctor Meseguer 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.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Doors closed at Valladolid

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Dean Huijsen has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Valladolid will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Off the pace: Víctor Meseguer

A mark of 5.74 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief

2 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Girona come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Valladolid did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market10 Aug 2026

Marcos André 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Marcos André signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marcos André commits to Valladolid for another 4 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Valladolid

Stanko Jurić 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Víctor Meseguer

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

Market10 Aug 2026

Nobody at Valladolid has picked up the phone to Iván Alejo

36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief

1 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

Iván Alejo has been here 8 seasons

264 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Market3 Aug 2026

Amath N'Diaye 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Amath N'Diaye signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Amath N'Diaye and Valladolid agree another 3 years.

In brief