The Montana Gazette
Match16 Jan 2027
12 matches without a win for Montana
The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Montana are no longer polite ones.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Arian Mršulja keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Montana may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market18 Jan 2027
Botev Vratsa watching Vasil Simeonov
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Montana have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Montana
Vajebah Sakor 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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Rodina tell Montana: Matvey Burlakov is not for sale
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.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Jair Tavares runs at them all day
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tomás Azevedo 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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Jorginho Soares
“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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Montana try to borrow Enzo Faty
Toulouse FC have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- Squad Facundo Alarcón is a square peg at Montana
- The dugout Martin Kostadinov: “We have to be better”
- Market Still no ink between Montana and Marco Ribeiro