The Pyunik Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
NK Domzale come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Pyunik did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
João Pedro turns down Pyunik
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Santos keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Sergiy Vakulenko 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 Pyunik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Zé Lucas
Pyunik asked and Cruzeiro said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Karen Khachatryan joins the Pyunik first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Karen Khachatryan 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: Grigor Haroyan joins the Pyunik first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Grigor Haroyan 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
Ararat Hovhannisyan steps up from the Pyunik academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ararat Hovhannisyan 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Pyunik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sargis Metoyan 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Henri Avagyan has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Pyunik know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
In brief
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Pyunik
- The dugout Sead Islamović knocks on the manager's door