Ludogorets have gone to Al Ahly with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
7 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Petar Stanić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Rwan Cruz provided it, and the 9.25 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
There were 86 minutes on the clock and Levski had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Ludogorets did not stop to explain themselves.
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.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. António Ribeiro has, at Ludogorets, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Petar Stanić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A brace, and Kwadwo Duah takes the afternoon — 9.19
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kwadwo Duah provided it, and the 9.19 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
7.94, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Hendrik Bonmann 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Another one collected away from home
4 on the bounce on the road for Ludogorets. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
100 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Ludogorets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petar Stanić 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.
9 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.
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.
Marked 9.93 — 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.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Fábio Ferreira is living that version at Ludogorets, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Ludogorets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hendrik Bonmann 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.
CSKA 1948 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.
Two goals and a mark of 9.62 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
7 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.
Hendrik Bonmann 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.
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Ludogorets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petar Stanić 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.
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Bernard Tekpetey provided it, and the 8.64 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Son 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hendrik Bonmann was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑1, Yasen Milanov could afford to be generous.
The offer from Ferencvaros for Caio Vidal 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.
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Ludogorets have paid $3.3M for Maks Ebong, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
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.
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Ilker Budinov is a Ludogorets player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ilker Budinov has just signed for Ludogorets, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Ludogorets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petar Stanić 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.