The Ararat Post
Squad3 Aug 2026
Albert Khachumyan stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Albert Khachumyan and Ararat agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ararat
Albert Khachumyan 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Umut Dilek 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Flamengo tell Ararat: Guilherme Gomes 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Sumgayit join the queue for Ernest Kacou
Add another name to the list: Sumgayit have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ernest Kacou. The answer from Ararat has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
İbrahim Yılmaz has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Ararat know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market3 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Ararat and Nikita Lobusov
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Adama Méïté
Still no offer on the table, and Adama Méïté’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Kayke is in the works
Ararat have made the call to Corinthians. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- Transfer targets Ararat ask about Khalil Sammani
- Transfer targets Ararat try to borrow François Baron
- Market Petros Alekyan is free to find somewhere else