Marked for Erick Marcus
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match20 Sep 2027
Ludogorets refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 18 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Match18 Sep 2027
Nobody wants to play Ludogorets right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
A defender's afternoon for Filip Kaloč
Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Filip Kaloč and Ludogorets agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Petar Stanić 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 Ludogorets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 23 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.47, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Upbeat
Market13 Sep 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Ludogorets, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market13 Sep 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 29 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
120 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match11 Sep 2027
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Caio Vidal 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.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Erick Marcus and Ludogorets agree another 5 years.
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Upbeat
Match4 Sep 2027
Septemvri will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Ludogorets were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad6 Sep 2027
There were 8 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ludogorets may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market6 Sep 2027
Caio Vidal 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 Ludogorets hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Petar Stanić 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 Ludogorets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Marked 9.37 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
A performance of 9.38 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
A defender's afternoon for Maks Ebong
Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
A performance of 8.70 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Steady
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 29 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Market30 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market30 Aug 2027
Arda pay $1.6M, 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.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Petar Stanić 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.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
A defender's afternoon for Maks Ebong
Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match28 Aug 2027
Arda made Ludogorets work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Uneasy
Match18 Aug 2027
Dobrudzha are out and Ludogorets go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Defensive actions: 29, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Market23 Aug 2027
“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 Ludogorets, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad23 Aug 2027
33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Caio Vidal 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 Ludogorets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market23 Aug 2027
Botev Vratsa paid $820.0K and Ludogorets took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Marked 9.20 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.58, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Steady
Market16 Aug 2027
“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 Ludogorets, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market16 Aug 2027
Cherno More come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Ludogorets did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Petar Stanić and Ludogorets agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match14 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Ludogorets
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Petar Stanić 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Ludogorets have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
A performance of 9.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Marko Grujić
“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.
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Crisis
Squad9 Aug 2027
Petar Stanić 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 Ludogorets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match7 Aug 2027
1‑2 to CSKA Sofia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Marked 8.42 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
One of those days for Rwan Cruz
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad9 Aug 2027
29 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
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Steady
Match31 Jul 2027
Whatever happens, Ludogorets do not lose
28 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad2 Aug 2027
There were 9 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market2 Aug 2027
Idan Nachmias hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ludogorets can pretend not to have heard.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Caio Vidal 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.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“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.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
The afternoon belonged to Rwan Cruz
A mark of 7.85, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Steady
Match24 Jul 2027
Still nobody has beaten Ludogorets
The unbeaten run reaches 27. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market26 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Petar Stanić 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 Ludogorets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market26 Jul 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Ludogorets have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
A masterclass from Rwan Cruz
Marked 8.21 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Market26 Jul 2027
A conversation is coming this week. Ludogorets will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Deyan Paskov commits to Ludogorets for another 3 years.
Match24 Jul 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Steady
Market5 Jul 2027
The offer from Botev Vratsa for Deroy Duarte 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Petar Stanić 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
The name of Erick Marcus has come up in conversations Ludogorets were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The medical room confirms 25 days on the sidelines for Alberto Salido, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Somebody is after Marko Grujić’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Marko Grujić suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Ludogorets have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market5 Jul 2027
Ludogorets have let the market know Noah Sonko Sundberg can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Steady
Match14 Jun 2027
Ludogorets are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 54 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market14 Jun 2027
The paperwork is done: Maks Ebong joins from CSKA Sofia in a deal worth $3.7M. Now comes the harder part.
Market14 Jun 2027
The offer from CSKA Sofia for Erick Marcus 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
The paperwork is done: Vasil Simeonov joins from Montana in a deal worth $920.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Petar Stanić 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 Ludogorets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Jun 2027
Anton Nedyalkov has left for CSKA Sofia in a $390.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
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Steady
Squad12 Apr 2027
Erick Marcus: 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.” Ludogorets have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Petar Stanić 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 Ludogorets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rodrigo Arciero, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Match17 Feb 2027
Whatever happens, Ludogorets do not lose
24 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad22 Feb 2027
3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match17 Feb 2027
A 1‑1 win over Lokomotiv Plovdiv, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match22 Feb 2027
54 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market22 Feb 2027
“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.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad22 Feb 2027
11 goals and a season average of 7.49. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Hendrik Bonmann 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.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
A masterclass from Rwan Cruz
Marked 8.38 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Upbeat
Match30 Jan 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 22 matches without defeat is a foundation Ludogorets did not have in the autumn.
Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Caio Vidal 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 Ludogorets hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Petar Stanić 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 Ludogorets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
A performance of 8.85 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Marked 8.23 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad1 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Joel Andersson
“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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Caio Vidal
5 goals and a season average of 7.34 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Match30 Jan 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Triumph
Match25 Jan 2027
Ludogorets refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 52 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market25 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ludogorets can pretend not to have heard.
Market25 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Petar Stanić
11 goals and a season average of 7.51 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Match23 Jan 2027
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
A defender's afternoon for Ivan Yordanov
Defensive actions: 24. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Hendrik Bonmann 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.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Market25 Jan 2027
CSKA Sofia pay $110.0K, 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.
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Upbeat
Match16 Jan 2027
Still nobody has beaten Ludogorets
The unbeaten run reaches 20. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad18 Jan 2027
There were 7 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Petar Stanić 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 Ludogorets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Petar Stanić
10 goals and a season average of 7.46 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Market18 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Ludogorets have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.99, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match16 Jan 2027
Three points for Ludogorets, 2‑0 the final word against Spartak 1918 in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
A performance of 8.73 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Triumph
Match19 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten Ludogorets
The unbeaten run reaches 16. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market21 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The medical room confirms 39 days on the sidelines for Filip Kaloč, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Petar Stanić 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 Ludogorets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Caio Vidal runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.06, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match19 Dec 2026
A 2‑1 win over Septemvri, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
One of those days for Rwan Cruz
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.53, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Petar Stanić is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.37 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
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Upbeat
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 34 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Hendrik Bonmann 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.16, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 17, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Stanislav Ivanov, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Hendrik Bonmann trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Erick Marcus finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Ludogorets have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Racing Genk have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kwadwo Duah. The answer from Ludogorets has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Petar Stanić 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 8.65 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gonzalo Ávila and Ludogorets agree another 2 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Petar Stanić asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Match1 Aug 2026
It needed Petar Stanić to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Levski, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.