The Alashkert Post
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Zaur Sadaev
133 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Alashkert lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Alashkert
Karen Nalbandyan 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Karen Nalbandyan has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Alashkert will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market21 Sep 2026
The Malik Odeyinka talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Alashkert know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
David Nduka knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Alashkert, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Philip Ejike finally belongs at Alashkert
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
In brief
- The dugout The manager comes out for Yaroslav Matyukhin
- Squad Yaroslav Matyukhin is out on the grass again