The Montana Gazette
Match3 Aug 2030
Montana tear Cherno More apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Cherno More, and it could have been more.
Squad5 Aug 2030
Montana count the cost of losing David Carmona
116 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad5 Aug 2030
Philip Ejike 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.
Player ratings5 Aug 2030
Milkyas Mebrathu in the eights
A performance of 9.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings5 Aug 2030
One of those days for Aleksandar Todorov
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings5 Aug 2030
A masterclass from Vasilis Kakionis
Marked 8.74 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad5 Aug 2030
Ivaylo Markov stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ivaylo Markov and Montana agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings5 Aug 2030
A masterclass from Úmaro Baldé
Marked 8.05 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad5 Aug 2030
No hiding place for Angelos Tsingaras
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Angelos Tsingaras, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market The Vajebah Sakor story refuses to die
- Market Spas Nedelev leaves for nothing
- Market Mihail Nedelkov leaves for nothing