Martin Ivanov

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Free Agent
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105 Edition

The Arda Chronicle

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom31 Jul 2028

Pressure builds in the Arda boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Félix Eboa Eboa 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 Arda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Real improvement from Dejan Ulmer at Arda

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dejan Ulmer is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Krasimir Miloshev 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.

Match29 Jul 2028

Félix Eboa Eboa the difference as Arda beat Lokomotiv Sofia

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Félix Eboa Eboa. 2‑1 against Lokomotiv Sofia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad31 Jul 2028

No hiding place for Hristiyan Slavkov

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

Player ratings31 Jul 2028

Nobody could get near Georgi Nikolov

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

Player ratings31 Jul 2028

Félix Eboa Eboa was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.16. 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.

Market31 Jul 2028

Félix Eboa Eboa linked with a move away

The name of Félix Eboa Eboa keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Arda say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

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51 Edition

The Arda Chronicle

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market19 Jul 2027

Tomás Álvarez Castillo hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Arda can pretend not to have heard.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Wilson Samaké 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 Arda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom19 Jul 2027

Graduation day at Arda

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market19 Jul 2027

Ivaylo Nedelchev moves on

Slavia Sofia pay $170.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Viacheslav Velev signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Viacheslav Velev commits to Arda for another 3 years.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Words at Arda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Svetoslav Kovachev 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.

Match17 Jul 2027

A bad afternoon for Arda against Cherno More

0‑2 to Cherno More, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market19 Jul 2027

Martin Ivanov steps up from the Arda academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Martin Ivanov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market19 Jul 2027

Arda promote Atanas Georgiev from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Atanas Georgiev 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.

In brief