The Montana Gazette
The terraces19 Aug 2030
Supporters organise against the Montana board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Boardroom19 Aug 2030
Christopher Murphy takes the Montana job
“I have watched this squad. There is more in it than the table says.” First press conference, first promise — Christopher Murphy made the one every new manager makes, and now comes the part where it gets checked.
Match14 Aug 2030
Montana march on in the cup
Levski are out and Montana go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings19 Aug 2030
Chavdar Petkov, 17, steals the show — 7.66
Marked 7.66 at 17, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market19 Aug 2030
Massimo Bigotti asks to leave Montana
“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.
Market19 Aug 2030
Chavdar Petkov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Montana they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets19 Aug 2030
No thanks: Tiago Rodrigues rejects the move
Montana had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Levski, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets19 Aug 2030
Too dear: Montana walk away from Petar Prindzhev
$340.0K was the most the club would pay and Spartak 1918 were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Souleymane Keita 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. Souleymane Keita has, at Montana, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
In brief
- Squad Words at Montana training over how hard people work
- Transfer targets Montana rebuffed over Manu Nieto
- Squad Tempers go at Montana