The Ararat Post
Squad17 Aug 2026
A day Grigor Mkhitaryan will not forget
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Market17 Aug 2026
Patrick Handzongo agrees terms with Lernayin Artsakh
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Ararat people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Ararat make their move for Lyova Mryan
$1.4M on the table at Shirak. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Ararat bid $760.0K for Donald Kodia
The offer went to Shirak this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Ararat go back to the board over Lyova Mryan
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.6M — a club that wants Lyova Mryan enough to be asked twice.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Ararat
Albert Khachumyan 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Ararat training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lenon Farías de Souza Leite 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Stripfing tell Ararat: Philipp Grillitsch is not for sale
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Sardarapat watching Aboubacar Ouattara
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Ararat have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
In brief
- Squad Lenon Farías de Souza Leite is a square peg at Ararat
- Market Ararat and Lenon Farías de Souza Leite are talking past each other
- Market Ararat put Petros Alekyan up for sale