Marked for Alexis Torres
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Crisis
Squad1 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gor Arakelyan
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. BKMA lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 85 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad1 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BKMA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Squad
Alexis Torres falls out with a teammate over standards
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Boardroom
BKMA answer back
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad11 Oct 2027
Gor Arakelyan damages knee ligaments — 44 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 44 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason BKMA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“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 BKMA know it.
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Squad
Words at BKMA training over how hard people work
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Crisis
Squad20 Sep 2027
Gor Arakelyan damages knee ligaments — 65 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 65 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Javi Moreno out for 35 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason BKMA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market20 Sep 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what BKMA can pretend not to have heard.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gor Arakelyan
87 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. BKMA lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Javi Moreno out for 56 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason BKMA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The terraces30 Aug 2027
Anger at BKMA spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match30 Aug 2027
BKMA sink to position 8
16 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
Pressure builds in the BKMA boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at BKMA
Petik Manukyan 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.
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Crisis
Market28 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what BKMA can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Tempers go at BKMA
Mats Lillebo 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at BKMA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Argishti Petrosyan 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.
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Steady
Player ratings17 May 2027
At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.30 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 May 2027
Words at BKMA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Argishti Petrosyan 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.
Squad17 May 2027
Tempers go at BKMA
Emil Viyachki 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.
Match15 May 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Renato Hyshmeri’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to BKMA.
Squad17 May 2027
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Uneasy
Match10 May 2027
Every point is an argument now for BKMA
Position 9 and 8 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad10 May 2027
Mats Lillebo 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 BKMA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at BKMA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Renato Hyshmeri 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Too much change too quickly at BKMA
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Michel Ayvazyan
“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.
Market10 May 2027
“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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market26 Apr 2027
Dimas puts it in writing
“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 BKMA, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Tempers go at BKMA
Petik Manukyan 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Argishti Petrosyan 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.
Match24 Apr 2027
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Alexis Torres had BKMA level again within 3 minutes, and Van never got to play with a lead at all.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.97 on the card, and the BKMA support went home talking about one name.
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Crisis
Match27 Mar 2027
No end in sight to BKMA's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at BKMA has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 19 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Tempers go at BKMA
Emil Viyachki 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Dimas out for 15 days
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Dimas, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Renato Hyshmeri 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.
Match27 Mar 2027
0‑1 to Ararat-Armenia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Steady
Squad15 Mar 2027
Tempers go at BKMA
Emil Viyachki 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Alexis Torres 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.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Stanislav Ruban
“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.
Market15 Mar 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at BKMA, another week without a signature from Pavel Pampukha.
Match13 Mar 2027
BKMA and Shirak 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.
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Steady
Market1 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what BKMA can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“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 BKMA know it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Tempers go at BKMA
Emil Viyachki 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.
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Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BKMA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at BKMA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexis Torres 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 Feb 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dmitriy Fedortsov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“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 BKMA know it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Tempers go at BKMA
Emil Viyachki 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.
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Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BKMA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at BKMA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexis Torres 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
“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.
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Steady
Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
Market4 Jan 2027
BKMA say no — this time
The offer from Pyunik for Argishti Petrosyan 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at BKMA
Emil Viyachki 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Renato Hyshmeri 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexis Torres, and the manager let it.
Market4 Jan 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at BKMA, another week without a signature from Emil Viyachki.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at BKMA
Emil Viyachki 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Alexis Torres 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emil Viyachki, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BKMA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at BKMA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexis Torres 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“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.
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup progress for BKMA
A 3‑1 win over Gandzasar, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at BKMA
Emil Viyachki 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at BKMA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fredrik Andersson 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Óscar Salinas
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. BKMA will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad17 Aug 2026
15 new faces, and BKMA are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.