Theo Carroll

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Lernayin Artsakh
17 Dec 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Theo Carroll

119 Edition

The Lernayin Artsakh Gazette

6 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Hovhannes Bayramyan has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Lernayin Artsakh can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

The dugout

Vache Hakobyan keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Lernayin Artsakh may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Marcos Pedro wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Lernayin Artsakh can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

Tempers go at Lernayin Artsakh

Rafael Ibiapino 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.

Boardroom

$503.4K of the owner's money at Lernayin Artsakh

The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.

Squad

Words at Lernayin Artsakh training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hítalo 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.

Boardroom

No signings allowed at Lernayin Artsakh

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

Boardroom

The Lernayin Artsakh debt reaches $13.2M

Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.

The dugout

Rafael Ibiapino without the man who signed him

Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. Rafael Ibiapino was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.

In brief

Back issues
112 Edition

The Lernayin Artsakh Gazette

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Rafael Ibiapino is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.42 with 33 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market

Vache Hakobyan puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Lernayin Artsakh, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Hítalo frozen out at Lernayin Artsakh

This is not rotation. Hítalo has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Lernayin Artsakh is pretending otherwise.

Match

No end in sight to Lernayin Artsakh's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lernayin Artsakh has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A falling-out at Lernayin Artsakh

Marcos Pedro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Lernayin Artsakh training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hadrian 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.

The dugout

No place for Hítalo on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Lernayin Artsakh pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

The dugout

Theo Carroll gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Lernayin Artsakh and Hítalo are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief