Lucas Ryan

Central Defender - Lokomotiv Plovdiv
3 Dec 2028
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Marked for Lucas Ryan

107 Edition

The Lokomotiv Plovdiv Gazette

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Aug 2028

Ivaylo Mihaylov: 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.” Lokomotiv Plovdiv have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match12 Aug 2028

Still nobody has beaten Lokomotiv Plovdiv

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market14 Aug 2028

Sevi Idriz is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lokomotiv Plovdiv is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Real improvement from Eric Hunal at Lokomotiv Plovdiv

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Eric Hunal is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Tempers go at Lokomotiv Plovdiv

Bojan Milosavljević 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.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Dominik Csontos has improved at 25, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Match12 Aug 2028

3 matches without a goal for Lokomotiv Plovdiv

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Market14 Aug 2028

CSKA 1948 expected to open talks for Goor Córdoba Mena

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Lokomotiv Plovdiv will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Market14 Aug 2028

Lucas Ryan told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Lucas Ryan has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Lokomotiv Plovdiv.

In brief

Back issues
100 Edition

The Lokomotiv Plovdiv Gazette

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market26 Jun 2028

Eyes on Sebastian Musiolik again

The phone has started ringing about Sebastian Musiolik again, and this time the name on the line is Haladas. Lokomotiv Plovdiv are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad26 Jun 2028

Bojan Milosavljević 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 Lokomotiv Plovdiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad26 Jun 2028

Martin Sorakov out for 40 days

The medical room confirms 40 days on the sidelines for Martin Sorakov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

74 Edition

The Lokomotiv Plovdiv Gazette

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings27 Dec 2027

Age has not caught Parvizjon Umarbaev yet — 7.80

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.80 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad27 Dec 2027

Jonathan Dellarossa 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 Lokomotiv Plovdiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad27 Dec 2027

Words at Lokomotiv Plovdiv training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Parvizjon Umarbaev 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.

Match25 Dec 2027

Lokomotiv Plovdiv get the job done against Botev Plovdiv

A 2‑1 win over Botev Plovdiv, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings27 Dec 2027

One of those days for Ryan Leijten

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.09, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad27 Dec 2027

Lucas Ryan 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.

Squad27 Dec 2027

Parvizjon Umarbaev finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Lokomotiv Plovdiv have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Market27 Dec 2027

The Jonathan Dellarossa question follows Lokomotiv Plovdiv around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jonathan Dellarossa’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Player ratings27 Dec 2027

Jonathan Dellarossa runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

52 Edition

The Lokomotiv Plovdiv Gazette

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market26 Jul 2027

Botev Vratsa come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Lokomotiv Plovdiv did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Jonathan Dellarossa 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 Lokomotiv Plovdiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Words at Lokomotiv Plovdiv training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Parvizjon Umarbaev 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.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Lucas Ryan signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lucas Ryan commits to Lokomotiv Plovdiv for another 3 years.

Squad26 Jul 2027

The manager has not finished forgetting Petar Vitanov's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Market26 Jul 2027

Spartaks are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Lokomotiv Plovdiv will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief