The Levski Chronicle
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Levski training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Álex Centelles 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.
Market3 May 2027
One of our own: Dimitar Petrov joins the Levski first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dimitar Petrov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market3 May 2027
Levski promote Momchil Petkov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Momchil Petkov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market3 May 2027
One of our own: Valentin Nedelkov joins the Levski first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Valentin Nedelkov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market3 May 2027
One of our own: Krasimir Minev joins the Levski first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Krasimir Minev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad3 May 2027
Words exchanged at Levski
Tiago Sampaio 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 dugout3 May 2027
When it matters, Hevertton plays
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 dugout3 May 2027
Hevertton knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Levski, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Loan watch3 May 2027
Nobody is scoring past Ognyan Vladimirov at Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa
6 shut-outs in 9 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Ognyan Vladimirov has been having a lot of them.
In brief
- Squad Marko Grujić has company in his position
- Squad Armstrong Oko-Flex is finding his feet at Levski
- The dugout Armstrong Oko-Flex keeps his manager's vote