Boris Todev

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Arda
29 Nov 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Boris Todev

56 Edition

The Arda Chronicle

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Arda out of the cup

Spartak Pleven ended it 2‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Player ratings

A brace, and Stanislav Ivanov takes the afternoon — 8.67

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Stanislav Ivanov provided it, and the 8.67 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Georgi Nikolov 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 The request is on a desk at Arda, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Anatoli Gospodinov wins the shoot-out

1 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.

Player ratings

Boris Todev, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.95

A mark of 7.95 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Arda

5 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.

Match

6 goals as Arda and Ludogorets go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Arda and Ludogorets, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Match

Stanislav Ivanov’s goal not enough for Arda

Stanislav Ivanov scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to Ludogorets, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

A row about effort at Arda

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

In brief

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The Arda Chronicle

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Martin Paskalev has one foot out of the door

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Félix Eboa Eboa

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

The dugout

A promise honoured at Arda

Something was said to Patrick Luan and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

Market

Patrick Luan linked with a move away

The name of Patrick Luan keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Arda say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

Serkan has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Arda 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.

The dugout

Atanas Kabov knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Arda, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief