Tico

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3 Aug 2027
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Marked for Tico

45 Edition

The Yantra Post

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad7 Jun 2027

Words exchanged at Yantra

Hristo Popadiyn and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad7 Jun 2027

A row about effort at Yantra

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrey Yordanov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Pandurii tell Yantra: Daniel Cicaldau is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout7 Jun 2027

The manager makes an example of Gennadiy Ganev

“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.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Josh Johnson stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Josh Johnson and Yantra agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market7 Jun 2027

Talks stall between Yantra and Arhan Isuf

“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.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Home is on Tico'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; Yantra are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Boardroom7 Jun 2027

Yantra counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Yantra now.

The dugout7 Jun 2027

Aniket Bharti 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 Yantra, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

  • Market Arhan Isuf linked with a move away
  • Boardroom Open for business: Yantra enter the window
  • Market The clock does Gennadiy Ganev’s negotiating for him
Back issues
38 Edition

The Yantra Post

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad19 Apr 2027

Hristo Popadiyn 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 Yantra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Andrey Yordanov falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

No hiding place for Vasil Kaymakanov

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

Squad19 Apr 2027

Tico wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Yantra know it.

Boardroom19 Apr 2027

Wages eat 95% of everything Yantra earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

Aniket Bharti asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief