The Urartu Post
Squad21 Feb 2028
The knee: Gor Matinyan out for 37 days
37 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Urartu lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Feb 2028
A fracture rules Zhirayr Margaryan out for 41 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Urartu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets21 Feb 2028
Urartu rebuffed over Asilbek Aliev
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Andijon have kept their man, and Urartu go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Words exchanged at Urartu
Bruno Michel 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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Words at Urartu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gor Lulukyan 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.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
Khariton Ayvazyan 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.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
When it matters, Narek Aghasaryan plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
Petik Manukyan knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Petik Manukyan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Match21 Feb 2028
Urartu in the hunt for Europe
Position 6, 21 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
In brief
- Market Mason Hunter leaves for nothing
- Market Buba leaves for nothing
- The dugout Gor Lulukyan keeps his manager's vote