Stan Sieuw

Striker - OH Leuven
17 Oct 2032
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320 Edition

The OH Leuven Herald

13 Sep 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad13 Sep 2032

Maxence Prévot keeps OH Leuven in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 17 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad13 Sep 2032

Quintijn Steelant damages knee ligaments — 95 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 95 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match11 Sep 2032

No clean sheets in sight for OH Leuven

7 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Transfer targets13 Sep 2032

No thanks: Muhammed Akif Avci rejects the move

OH Leuven had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Racing Genk, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad13 Sep 2032

Stan Sieuw arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Stan Sieuw has, at OH Leuven, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets13 Sep 2032

Club Brugge tell OH Leuven: Tobe Leysen 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.

Match11 Sep 2032

4 matches without a win for OH Leuven

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around OH Leuven are no longer polite ones.

Squad13 Sep 2032

Henok Teklab 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 OH Leuven this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match11 Sep 2032

OH Leuven come up short against Racing Genk

Racing Genk left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

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310 Edition

The Botev Plovdiv Chronicle

5 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad5 Jul 2032

Bryan Hein breaks a bone — 115 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 115 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market5 Jul 2032

Terms done: Stan Sieuw is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and CSKA 1948 waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Botev Plovdiv is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market5 Jul 2032

Simeon Ivanov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Botev Plovdiv they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad5 Jul 2032

Words exchanged at Botev Plovdiv

Mauro Rodrigues 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.

Squad5 Jul 2032

The step up is real for Simeon Ivanov

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Transfer targets5 Jul 2032

Arda tell Botev Plovdiv: Petar Prindzhev 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.

Squad5 Jul 2032

Bernard Tekpetey 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.

Boardroom5 Jul 2032

Intake day at the Botev Plovdiv academy

9 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.

The dugout5 Jul 2032

Bernard Tekpetey has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Botev Plovdiv will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

278 Edition

The Botev Plovdiv Chronicle

24 Nov 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Match19 Nov 2031

The cup run ends for Botev Plovdiv

0‑1 against Lokomotiv Plovdiv, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings24 Nov 2031

Vintage Asen Chandarov — 7.89

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.89, and nobody on the pitch better.

The dugout24 Nov 2031

Stan Sieuw: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Botev Plovdiv have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings24 Nov 2031

Nobody could get near Bryan Hein

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market24 Nov 2031

Simeon Ivanov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Botev Plovdiv they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad24 Nov 2031

A falling-out at Botev Plovdiv

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

Squad24 Nov 2031

Joël Zwarts is carrying Botev Plovdiv

14 goals and a season average of 7.31. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad24 Nov 2031

Simeon Petrov 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.

Squad24 Nov 2031

Late improvement for Ilian Antonov

At 26 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

In brief

262 Edition

The Botev Plovdiv Chronicle

4 Aug 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad4 Aug 2031

Ilian Antonov breaks a bone — 118 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 118 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings4 Aug 2031

Mauro Rodrigues was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Transfer targets4 Aug 2031

Vladimir Nikolov turns down Botev Plovdiv

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Ludogorets keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Market4 Aug 2031

Botev Plovdiv say no — this time

The offer from Rivers United for Simeon Turlakov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market4 Aug 2031

Stan Sieuw hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Botev Plovdiv can pretend not to have heard.

Market4 Aug 2031

Danail Bozhikov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Botev Plovdiv they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad4 Aug 2031

Tempers go at Botev Plovdiv

Jorginho 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.

Transfer targets4 Aug 2031

Ludogorets tell Botev Plovdiv: Vladimir Nikolov 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.

Squad4 Aug 2031

Daniel Naumov stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Naumov and Botev Plovdiv agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

237 Edition

The Botev Plovdiv Chronicle

10 Feb 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings10 Feb 2031

Mauro Rodrigues was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 38. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match10 Feb 2031

Full time on the season at Botev Plovdiv

Position 4 on 53 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.

Market10 Feb 2031

Stan Sieuw agrees terms with Neman

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Botev Plovdiv people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets10 Feb 2031

No thanks: Vladimir Nikolov rejects the move

Botev Plovdiv had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Ludogorets, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad10 Feb 2031

Tempers go at Botev Plovdiv

Mauro Rodrigues 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.

Squad10 Feb 2031

Words at Botev Plovdiv training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simeon Petrov 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.

Match8 Feb 2031

Slavia Sofia take the points off Botev Plovdiv

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout10 Feb 2031

The manager makes an example of Daniel Naumov

“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.

Squad10 Feb 2031

Defences have started doubling up on Mauro Rodrigues

7 goals and a season average of 7.36 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Boardroom Wages eat 90% of everything Botev Plovdiv earn
  • The dugout Bernard Tekpetey gets picked when it counts