The Shirak Sentinel
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Kamran Medvedev turns down Shirak
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: AZAL keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Lyova Mryan signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lyova Mryan and Shirak agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Shirak
Rafik Misakyan 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Pyunik tell Shirak: Hayk Tatosyan 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Shirak promote Henrikh Hakobyan from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Henrikh Hakobyan has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Levon Bayramyan joins the Shirak first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Levon Bayramyan is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Sargis Simonyan joins the Shirak first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sargis Simonyan is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Shirak promote Sargis Ghazaryan from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sargis Ghazaryan has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Donald Kodia wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Shirak know it.
In brief
- Squad Shirak are still strangers to each other
- Transfer targets A loan move for Kevin Pereira is in the works
- The dugout Lyova Mryan asks for a word with the manager