José Mendes

Central Midfielder - Cherno More
15 Aug 2027
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Marked for José Mendes

52 Edition

The Cherno More Chronicle

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Jul 2027

Miguel Cruz breaks a bone — 57 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 57 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market26 Jul 2027

Levski come back empty-handed

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

Market26 Jul 2027

José Mendes asks to leave Cherno More

“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.

Player ratings26 Jul 2027

Yoan Stoyanov was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Cherno More lose Ertan Tombak

64 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad26 Jul 2027

The step up is real for Petar Marinov

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad26 Jul 2027

A falling-out at Cherno More

Bojan Milosavljević and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets26 Jul 2027

Cherno More rebuffed over Giacomo Koloto

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Basel have kept their man, and Cherno More go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Player ratings26 Jul 2027

A defender's afternoon for Kristiyan Malinov

Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

In brief

Back issues
30 Edition

The Cherno More Chronicle

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad22 Feb 2027

Zhivko Atanasov 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 Cherno More this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Words at Cherno More training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Plamen Iliev 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

Cherno More are still strangers to each other

11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout22 Feb 2027

The manager makes an example of Plamen Iliev

“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.

The dugout22 Feb 2027

Berk Beyhan 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.

Market22 Feb 2027

The Celso Sidney talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Cherno More know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

26 Edition

The Cherno More Chronicle

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market25 Jan 2027

Botev Plovdiv come back empty-handed

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

Market25 Jan 2027

Kristian Tomov asks to leave Cherno More

“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 targets25 Jan 2027

Deroy Duarte is a medical away from Cherno More

The deal with Ludogorets is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad25 Jan 2027

José Mendes arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. José Mendes has, at Cherno More, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets25 Jan 2027

Lokomotiv Plovdiv tell Cherno More: Andrei Chindriş 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.

Match23 Jan 2027

A bad afternoon for Cherno More against CSKA Sofia

0‑1 to CSKA Sofia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Cherno More

Sevi Idriz 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.

Squad25 Jan 2027

7 new faces, and Cherno More 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.

The dugout25 Jan 2027

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Simeon Delev to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

25 Edition

The Cherno More Chronicle

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match16 Jan 2027

Chastening afternoon for Cherno More

A 0‑3 beating by Levski was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market18 Jan 2027

Terms done: Bojan Milosavljević is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Levadiakos waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Cherno More is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market18 Jan 2027

Cherno More say no — this time

The offer from Dinamo Bucharest for Jorge Padilla 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.

Market18 Jan 2027

Plamen Iliev 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 Cherno More can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

José Mendes due for a Cherno More medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Celso Sidney was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

Ludogorets tell Cherno More: Ivan Yordanov 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.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Cherno More

Zhivko Atanasov 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.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Georgi Lazarov ran the middle of the pitch — 6.77

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 11 combined actions and a mark of 6.77, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

In brief