Marked for Momchil Dimitrov
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad27 Sep 2032
65 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Beroe lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad27 Sep 2032
A fracture rules Momchil Dimitrov out for 19 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Beroe will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad27 Sep 2032
The medical room confirms 41 days on the sidelines for Juan Carlos Pineda, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market27 Sep 2032
As if he never left: Mitko Mitkov returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Mitko Mitkov is a Beroe player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Boardroom27 Sep 2032
Botev Plovdiv will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Kassoum Koné has pre-agreed a move to Beroe, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad27 Sep 2032
“The easiest signature of my career.” Aymene Boualleg and Beroe agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings27 Sep 2032
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout27 Sep 2032
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout27 Sep 2032
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aymene Boualleg, and the manager let it.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Market
No place for Diogo Pereira in the plan
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The dugout
A promise honoured at Beroe
Back issues
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Steady
Squad20 Sep 2032
A knee injury of the worst kind for Santiago Brunelli
72 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Beroe lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad20 Sep 2032
A fracture rules Momchil Dimitrov out for 26 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Beroe will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout20 Sep 2032
Tiago Galeiras: 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.” Beroe have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market20 Sep 2032
Tiago Galeiras has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Beroe they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom20 Sep 2032
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
The dugout20 Sep 2032
This is not rotation. Valentino Murataj has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Beroe is pretending otherwise.
Match18 Sep 2032
A bad afternoon for Beroe against Septemvri
0‑1 to Septemvri, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad20 Sep 2032
Tempers go at Beroe
Martim Silva 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.
Player ratings20 Sep 2032
Emir Kuhinja beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Squad
Words at Beroe training over how hard people work
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The dugout
Juan Carlos Pineda has become a man the manager trusts
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Upbeat
Squad13 Sep 2032
A knee injury of the worst kind for Santiago Brunelli
80 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Beroe lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad13 Sep 2032
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 33 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market13 Sep 2032
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Arda moved on, Ivaylo Mihaylov reports back to Beroe, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Market13 Sep 2032
Manuel Sousa has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Beroe they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom13 Sep 2032
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Tiago Galeiras has agreed terms with Dobrudzha for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Match11 Sep 2032
Beroe keep winning on the road
4 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Match11 Sep 2032
Still nobody has beaten Beroe
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad13 Sep 2032
Tempers go at Beroe
Mario Ivov 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.
Match11 Sep 2032
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Juan Carlos Pineda. 1‑0 against Cherno More, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Steady
Squad6 Sep 2032
Santiago Brunelli damages knee ligaments — 87 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 87 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad6 Sep 2032
41 days out for Momchil Dimitrov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Beroe will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market6 Sep 2032
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom6 Sep 2032
Deadline passes with 15 signed and 12 gone
That is the business done at Beroe until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market6 Sep 2032
Mario Mladenov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Beroe they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2032
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Ludogorets keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Boardroom6 Sep 2032
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Luka Posavec has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad6 Sep 2032
A falling-out at Beroe
Juan Carlos Pineda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2032
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.
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Steady
Squad30 Aug 2032
A knee injury of the worst kind for Santiago Brunelli
94 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Beroe lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market30 Aug 2032
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Beroe have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Squad30 Aug 2032
A fracture rules Momchil Dimitrov out for 49 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Beroe will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market30 Aug 2032
The bid was some way short and Beroe did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market30 Aug 2032
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2032
The deal with Ludogorets 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.
Squad30 Aug 2032
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Beroe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2032
Beroe have gone to Cherno More with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2032
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ludogorets have kept their man, and Beroe go back to a list with one name crossed off it.