48 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pyunik lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. Ararat will replay every second of the added time for a week.
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Pyunik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. James 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.
105 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pyunik lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.04 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Pyunik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hovhannes Harutyunyan 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.
“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 Pyunik know it.
“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 The request is on a desk at Pyunik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Pyunik asked and Wigan Athletic said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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.
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Pyunik will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Pyunik, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Fluminense keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Pyunik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hovhannes Harutyunyan 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.
Pyunik asked and Bragantino said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Sargis Metoyan 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.
Internacional have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.