The Sportist Svoge Herald
Boardroom12 Jun 2028
Pressure builds in the Sportist Svoge boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Transfer targets12 Jun 2028
Viktorio Valkov is a medical away from Sportist Svoge
The deal with Beroe is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Yuri 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 Sportist Svoge this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets12 Jun 2028
Botev Plovdiv tell Sportist Svoge: Hristiyan Vasilev 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.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Georgi Varbanov 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 dugout12 Jun 2028
Kirill Glazunov 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.
Market12 Jun 2028
Martin Kostadinov runs his contract down
2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Sportist Svoge money.
The dugout12 Jun 2028
Georgi Atanasov 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 Sportist Svoge, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market12 Jun 2028
Yuri linked with a move away
The name of Yuri keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Sportist Svoge say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Sportist Svoge and Hans Mertens
- Squad Mathias Bang wants out of the dugout
- Squad Ivan Anić remains an outsider