Toby Meunier

Goalkeeper - Botev Vratsa
19 Dec 2026
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13 Edition

The Botev Vratsa Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Oct 2026

Daniel Genov breaks a bone — 42 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match26 Oct 2026

Botev Vratsa sink to position 15

10 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Martin Petkov

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Kristiyan Malinov 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.

Match24 Oct 2026

José Gallegos the difference as Botev Vratsa beat Arda

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: José Gallegos. 1‑0 against Arda, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad26 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Toby Meunier

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Toby Meunier, and the manager let it.

In brief

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10 Edition

The Botev Vratsa Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad5 Oct 2026

Daniel Genov breaks a bone — 65 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 65 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match3 Oct 2026

The wait goes on for Botev Vratsa

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Marin Orlinov: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Botev Vratsa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Botev Vratsa

Daniel Genov 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Luis Arias stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Luis Arias and Botev Vratsa agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match3 Oct 2026

CSKA Sofia take the points off Botev Vratsa

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near René Meléndez

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market5 Oct 2026

Talks stall between Botev Vratsa and Toby Meunier

“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.

Market5 Oct 2026

Experience through the door at Botev Vratsa

Luis Arias arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

In brief

9 Edition

The Botev Vratsa Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad28 Sep 2026

Daniel Genov breaks a bone — 72 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 72 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match28 Sep 2026

Botev Vratsa sink to position 16

6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match26 Sep 2026

No end in sight to Botev Vratsa's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Botev Vratsa has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Daniel Genov 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 Botev Vratsa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Kristiyan Malinov 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

Radoslav Tsonev’s goal not enough for Botev Vratsa

Radoslav Tsonev scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Levski, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

In brief

8 Edition

The Lokeren Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match19 Sep 2026

Lokeren do the business in Europe

2‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Lokeren came through the finding-out well against Heerenveen.

Match19 Sep 2026

Youri De Bruyne wins it after the whistle should have gone

92 minutes played. Youri De Bruyne found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Heerenveen went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Axel Kompany 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 Lokeren this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Youri De Bruyne was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.30. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Axel Meunier in the eights

A performance of 8.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

One of those days for Laurent Hazard

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.03, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad21 Sep 2026

No place for Laurent Hazard on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Lokeren pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words at Lokeren training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stan Naert 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Youri De Bruyne has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Lokeren will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief