Briar Bateman

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Urartu
8 Jul 2028
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Marked for Briar Bateman

97 Edition

The Urartu Post

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match31 May 2028

Urartu march on in the cup

Mika are out and Urartu go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match31 May 2028

Cruel end for Mika as Urartu pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Urartu scored in the 107th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Squad5 Jun 2028

A fracture rules Mikhail Petrov out for 28 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Urartu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings5 Jun 2028

No sign of nerves from David Harutyunyan at 20 — 8.28

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. David Harutyunyan did not need any: 8.28, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market5 Jun 2028

Andrija Dragojević asks to leave Urartu

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market5 Jun 2028

Only the photograph left for Arman Ghazaryan

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Arman Ghazaryan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Urartu the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match3 Jun 2028

Urartu make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Urartu have 3 straight wins of it.

Match3 Jun 2028

Urartu see off Gandzasar

Three points for Urartu, 3‑2 the final word against Gandzasar in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Transfer targets5 Jun 2028

Nueva Chicago tell Urartu: Matías Romero 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.

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95 Edition

The Urartu Post

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad22 May 2028

A fracture rules Mikhail Petrov out for 43 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Urartu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad22 May 2028

Words at Urartu training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zhirayr Margaryan 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.

Squad22 May 2028

Rossetto wants to go home

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

Player ratings22 May 2028

Bruno Michel takes the honours

Marked 7.75 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Urartu had the best player on the pitch.

Squad22 May 2028

Words exchanged at Urartu

Briar Bateman 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.

Match20 May 2028

Urartu and Ararat-Armenia take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings22 May 2028

Karen Melkonyan beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout22 May 2028

Henrikh Hovhannisyan: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout22 May 2028

Bruno Michel 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 Bruno Michel is on it.

In brief