The Botev Plovdiv Chronicle
Squad8 Mar 2027
Home is on Nikola Soldo's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Botev Plovdiv are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Simeon Turlakov is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Botev Plovdiv training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Todor Nedelev 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Botev Plovdiv
Antoine Conte 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
Talks stall between Botev Plovdiv and Nikola Soldo
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Loan watch8 Mar 2027
9 goals on loan for Todor Nedelev
28 appearances at Botev Plovdiv and the goals keep coming. Botev Plovdiv are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market8 Mar 2027
Nikolay Prandzhev returns from a loan that taught him nothing
0 appearances and 0 clean sheets. A goalkeeper learns his job by playing it, and a season that gave him neither the games nor the shut-outs is a year taken off the front of a career.
Loan watch8 Mar 2027
7 goals on loan for Tailson
27 appearances at Spartak 1918 and the goals keep coming. Botev Plovdiv are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Chimezie Williams gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Chimezie Williams is on it.
In brief
- Market The Samuel Kalu question follows Botev Plovdiv around
- Match Botev Plovdiv have something to play for
- Loan watch Carlos Meotti has made Minyor Pernik’s shirt his own