The Sportist Svoge Herald
Squad3 Sep 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ivo Kostadinov
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sportist Svoge lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Nikolay Bozhikov gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Nikolay Bozhikov has just signed for Sportist Svoge, and for once the answer mattered.
Market3 Sep 2029
Paweł Zastępa 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 The request is on a desk at Sportist Svoge, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom3 Sep 2029
Sportist Svoge close the window on a squad of their own making
20 in and 19 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets3 Sep 2029
No thanks: Umut Habil rejects the move
Sportist Svoge had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Minyor Pernik, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Words exchanged at Sportist Svoge
Toni Ivanov 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.
Transfer targets3 Sep 2029
Sportist Svoge rebuffed over Ibrahim Keïta
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Marek have kept their man, and Sportist Svoge go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Kirill Glazunov 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.
Market3 Sep 2029
Talks stall between Sportist Svoge and Toni Ivanov
“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.
In brief
- Market Sportist Svoge buy the years ahead of Thibo Deman
- Market Sportist Svoge sign Nikolay Bozhikov, one for the future
- The dugout No hiding place for Alessio Tuseddu