Bogdan Markov

Goalkeeper - Veles
1 Mar 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Bogdan Markov

29 Edition

The Veles Post

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Artur Koloskov agrees terms with Znamya Truda

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

Market

Artur Koloskov asks to leave Veles

“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.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Yegor Smirnov

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Veles have done the hard part with Leningradets, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Words exchanged at Veles

Dmitry Sadov 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Vladislav Galkin

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladislav Galkin, and the manager let it.

Squad

Ionafan Sapozhnikov 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 dugout

Artur Koloskov asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

Dmitry Sergeev linked with a move away

The name of Dmitry Sergeev keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Veles say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

The training reports on Bogdan Markov are not good

A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.

In brief

Back issues
23 Edition

The Veles Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Zakhar Tarasenko is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Veles will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Squad

Dmitry Sadov 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 Veles this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Veles counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Veles now.

Squad

A row about effort at Veles

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ionafan Sapozhnikov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Bogdan Markov 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.

Market

Ishkhan Geloyan linked with a move away

The name of Ishkhan Geloyan keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Veles say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

13 Edition

The Veles Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

9 saves: Ilja Kuptsov was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Artur Koloskov 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 Veles can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Dmitry Sergeev pops up at the right end — 7.79

7.79, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

The dugout

Bogdan Markov keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Veles may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

Veles get the job done against Mashuk

A 3‑1 win over Mashuk, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Words exchanged at Veles

Ishkhan Geloyan 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.

Player ratings

Zakhar Tarasenko was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.08. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alexandr Shubin

“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.

Squad

8 new faces, and Veles 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.

In brief

  • The dugout Igor Kulikov has his say
  • Squad The division's best last weekend was a Veles man
  • The dugout Karim Giraev knocks on the manager's door