Berk Beyhan

Defensive Midfielder - Cherno More
28 Nov 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Berk Beyhan

17 Edition

The Cherno More Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Cherno More

8 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Celso Sidney

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Plamen Iliev 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 Cherno More this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for Plamen Iliev

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Plamen Iliev, and the manager let it.

Match

Lokomotiv Plovdiv take the points off Cherno More

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Berk Beyhan stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Berk Beyhan and Cherno More agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The Cherno More Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Celso Sidney

Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

7 matches without a win for Cherno More

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Cherno More are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Berk Beyhan: 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.” Cherno More have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Cherno More count the cost of losing Ertan Tombak

52 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Bozhidar Kraev 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 Cherno More this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Vlatko Drobarov

Marked 8.59 — 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.

In brief

15 Edition

The Cherno More Chronicle

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

6 matches without a win for Cherno More

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Cherno More are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Celso Sidney runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Plamen Iliev 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 Cherno More this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Remember the name: Nikolay Zlatev

He is 21, he is averaging 7.01, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Match

Jorge Padilla’s goal not enough for Cherno More

Jorge Padilla scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Septemvri, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings

One of those days for Jorge Padilla

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.07, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

8 Edition

The Cherno More Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

6 matches without a win for Cherno More

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Cherno More are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Celso Sidney

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Cherno More

Plamen Iliev 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Plamen Iliev

“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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Cherno More against Slavia Sofia

0‑1 to Slavia Sofia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Vlatko Drobarov gives it away

There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Cherno More lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.

Player ratings

Jorge Padilla leaves them behind him

Shots: 9. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

Player ratings

Nicolas Rajsel never got going

5.55 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

Squad

Berk Beyhan knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Berk Beyhan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief