Marked for Arman Adamyan
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad30 Aug 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match28 Aug 2027
Chastening afternoon for Pyunik-2
A 1‑4 beating by Urartu was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match28 Aug 2027
After 8 games, Pyunik-2 finally taste it again
The first defeat in 8 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Urartu; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
Nobody left the Pyunik-2 dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Henrikh Barseghyan after 1‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad16 Aug 2027
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match14 Aug 2027
Still nobody has beaten Pyunik-2
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Pyunik-2
Mikhail Kovalenko and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market16 Aug 2027
Add another name to the list: Gandzasar have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Stanislav Buchnev. The answer from Pyunik-2 has not changed — yet.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.11, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match14 Aug 2027
Pyunik-2 and Hayq take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Henrikh Barseghyan was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the Pyunik-2 dressing room was either.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“I am not asking anybody to be better than they are. I am asking everybody to be as good as they are, every week.” Said out loud, in front of everybody, and the room at Pyunik-2 was different afterwards.
Looking ahead16 Aug 2027
Looking ahead: Andranik at home
A side in position 8 visits next. The result will not make anybody’s season and it could quietly break the shape of one, which is why the manager has been watching the video since Sunday.
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Upbeat
Squad18 Jan 2027
Arman Adamyan breaks a bone — 19 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Corinthians is saying, and nobody at Pyunik is enjoying the guessing.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Pyunik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hovhannes Harutyunyan 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.
Boardroom18 Jan 2027
Noah will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Clinton Dombila has pre-agreed a move to Pyunik, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Pyunik
Sargis Metoyan 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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergiy Vakulenko, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Lokomotiv Moscow have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Athletico Paranaense: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
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Squad
Pyunik are still strangers to each other
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The dugout
Alemão gets picked when it counts
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Market
The shop window has Alemão in it
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Upbeat
Squad11 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Arman Adamyan out for 27 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Pyunik will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market11 Jan 2027
“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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Pyunik say no — this time
The offer from BKMA for Viacheslav Afyan was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Pyunik
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hovhannes Harutyunyan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Pyunik asked and HNK Rijeka said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Pyunik
Sargis Metoyan and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Javi Moreno, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Corinthians: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Sabah: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Upbeat
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pyunik can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Arman Adamyan breaks a bone — 34 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Viacheslav Afyan is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Pyunik
Alemão 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Daniil Kulikov 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Zagreb have kept their man, and Pyunik go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market4 Jan 2027
Alemão is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Pyunik has been clear about where Alemão stands, which is more than many ever get.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to CSKA Moscow: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Iman Griffith gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Iman Griffith is on it.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Dec 2026
41 days out for Arman Adamyan after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pyunik will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Pyunik
Alemão and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad28 Dec 2026
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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Artak Dashyan
“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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
85% of the income goes out in wages at Pyunik
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Daniil Kulikov is on it.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager makes Momo Yansané a promise
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Market
The Momo Yansané story refuses to die
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The dugout
The manager plants his flag on Alemão
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Squad
Alemão is the talk of the training ground
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Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Pyunik-2
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Pyunik-2 are no longer polite ones.
Match19 Sep 2026
Pyunik-2 are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Match19 Sep 2026
Arman Adamyan scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Noah-2, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Henrikh Barseghyan after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Pyunik-2 would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.