Marked for Júnior Saudade
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at BKMA
Bruno Dentinho 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at BKMA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Júnior Saudade was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at BKMA
16 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Henrikh Sarkisov out for 18 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason BKMA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Michel Ayvazyan is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gor Arakelyan and BKMA agree another 4 years.
In brief
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Squad
Words at BKMA training over how hard people work
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Market
The Júnior Saudade story refuses to die
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
26 days out for Henrikh Sarkisov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. BKMA will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; BKMA are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BKMA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Júnior Saudade 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at BKMA, another week without a signature from Bruno Dentinho.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market31 Aug 2026
BKMA say no — this time
The offer from Noah for Argishti Petrosyan 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what BKMA can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at BKMA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Júnior Saudade was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
BKMA out of the cup
Noah ended it 0‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad24 Aug 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Alashkert is saying, and nobody at BKMA is enjoying the guessing.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at BKMA
Júnior Saudade 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
BKMA asked and Urartu said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at BKMA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Ghiasyan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The deal with Ararat is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
BKMA had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Athletico Paranaense, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at BKMA
Júnior Saudade and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
BKMA asked and Shirak said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad17 Aug 2026
12 new faces, and BKMA are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Narek Baroyan arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Narek Baroyan has, at BKMA, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Ararat is saying, and nobody at BKMA is enjoying the guessing.
Market10 Aug 2026
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market10 Aug 2026
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at BKMA
Reinis Reinholds and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.