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The First League Courier

1 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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André Shinyashiki tops the scoring charts

Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 4 appearances for Arda.

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Aguibou Camara is the division's player of the month — 8.89

A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Ludogorets man on 8.89 with 3 goal contributions.

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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Spartak 1918

Damyan Yordanov was marked 7.67 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.

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Everton Bala asks to leave Levski

“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.

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Nobody made more than David Kusso this month

2 assists, 7.19, and a Montana player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.

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Aguibou Camara is the division's best-marked player — 8.89

The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.89 across 3 matches for Ludogorets.

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Slavia Sofia say no — this time

The offer from Botev Vratsa for Ivan Andonov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

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Enock Kwateng raises the bar for Botev Plovdiv

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Botev Plovdiv heard it as anything else.

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Petko Panayotov’s move to Levski falls through

The deal that would have taken Petko Panayotov to Levski has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to CSKA Sofia with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

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Still scoring: Aguibou Camara

3 in 3 for Ludogorets. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Still scoring: Mazire Soula

2 in 4 for Levski. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Emerson Rodríguez keeps the pressure on

2 goals in 4 appearances for Botev Plovdiv leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

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The First League Courier

1 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Ante Aralica

The month closes with Ante Aralica out in front — 4 goals in 5 games, and Lokomotiv Sofia have the division's most feared finisher.

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The month belonged to Everton Bala

Marked 7.74 across it, 4 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Levski have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.

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Damyan Yordanov is the month's best young player — 7.56

The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.56 over the month and 2 goal contributions, from a Spartak 1918 player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.

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Faiz Mattoir 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 Septemvri, and it is not being withdrawn.

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Ludogorets say no — this time

The offer from Lokomotiv Moscow for Kwadwo Duah was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

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Nobody made more than Yanko Georgiev this month

3 assists, 7.68, and a Septemvri player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.

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Everton Bala is the division's best-marked player — 7.74

The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 7.74 across 5 matches for Levski.

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Teodor Ivanov’s move to Botev Plovdiv falls through

The deal that would have taken Teodor Ivanov to Botev Plovdiv has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to CSKA Sofia with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

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Septemvri watching Aleksa Maraš

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Botev Plovdiv have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

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Still scoring: Radoslav Kirilov

3 in 5 for Levski. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Valdu Té is right behind him

3 goals in 5 appearances for Dobrudzha, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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Mascote keeps the pressure on

3 goals in 5 appearances for Botev Plovdiv leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

1 Edition

The First League Courier

1 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Caio Vidal raises the bar for Ludogorets

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Ludogorets heard it as anything else.

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Christian Makoun 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.

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No place for Daniel Naumov in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Daniel Naumov has his answer from Botev Plovdiv; what he does with it is the next window’s story.