Valentin Grudev

Right Midfielder - Montana U20
23 Apr 2030
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Marked for Valentin Grudev

164 Edition

The Montana Gazette

17 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad17 Sep 2029

A fracture rules Nikolay Krastev out for 80 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Montana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad17 Sep 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Valentin Grudev

19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Montana lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match15 Sep 2029

7 matches without a win for Montana

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Montana are no longer polite ones.

Boardroom17 Sep 2029

Montana to lose Viktor Dobrev for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Viktor Dobrev 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.

Transfer targets17 Sep 2029

Too dear: Montana walk away from Petar Andreev

$120.0K was the most the club would pay and Cherno More were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Match15 Sep 2029

Nikolay Nedelkov’s goal not enough for Montana

Nikolay Nedelkov scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Belasitsa, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad17 Sep 2029

Tomás Bernardo 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 Montana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout17 Sep 2029

The manager makes an example of Hamza Bouihrouchane

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Transfer targets17 Sep 2029

The window shuts on the Kyllian Thaurin deal

Montana ran out of time with Etar. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

In brief

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107 Edition

The Montana Gazette

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings14 Aug 2028

Radoslav Zhivkov scores twice — 9.07

Two goals and a mark of 9.07 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings14 Aug 2028

Georgi Chorbadzhiyski scores twice — 8.60

Two goals and a mark of 8.60 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market14 Aug 2028

Montana turn down Lokomotiv Plovdiv for Vitinho

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Match12 Aug 2028

Montana make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Montana have 3 straight wins of it.

Match12 Aug 2028

Montana get the job done against Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa

A 4‑3 win over Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Radoslav Zhivkov 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 Montana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match12 Aug 2028

Radoslav Zhivkov among the goals in a wild afternoon

7 goals in one match, Radoslav Zhivkov on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Montana and Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa.

Transfer targets14 Aug 2028

Montana rebuffed over Hristiyan Vasilev

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Botev Plovdiv have kept their man, and Montana go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Time is catching up with Ivan Kokonov

Everybody at Montana saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 37 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

In brief