The Gandzasar Herald
Market19 Jun 2028
Grigory Matevosyan agrees terms with BKMA
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Gandzasar people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Match14 Jun 2028
Cup progress for Gandzasar
A 2‑0 win over Alashkert, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market19 Jun 2028
João Nóbrega 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 The request is on a desk at Gandzasar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2028
Adel Anzimati is a medical away from Gandzasar
The deal with Ararat 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.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2028
No thanks: Jamal Dibirgadjiev rejects the move
Gandzasar had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at BKMA, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Bertrand Mani 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 Gandzasar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Axel Kompany gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Axel Kompany has just signed for Gandzasar, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Rob Nizet 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.
Player ratings19 Jun 2028
Anthony Okachi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Ethan Lizalda
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Hagai Katoh
- The dugout No hiding place for Andrea Marino