The Lokomotiv Plovdiv Gazette
Market10 Aug 2026
Spartak 1918 come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Lokomotiv Plovdiv did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bojan Milosavljević keeps Lokomotiv Plovdiv in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ilker Budinov arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Ilker Budinov has, at Lokomotiv Plovdiv, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market10 Aug 2026
Bojan Milosavljević attracts admirers
The name of Bojan Milosavljević has come up in conversations Lokomotiv Plovdiv were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Julien Lamy was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Lokomotiv Plovdiv
Bojan Milosavljević and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $40.0K for Mesut Yusuf
Lokomotiv Plovdiv have gone to Arda with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Martin Ruskov signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Martin Ruskov and Lokomotiv Plovdiv agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Lokomotiv Plovdiv rebuffed over Francisco Souza Silva
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Benfica have kept their man, and Lokomotiv Plovdiv go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Parvizjon Umarbaev
- Market Angel Marcelinho steps up from the Lokomotiv Plovdiv academy
- Market One of our own: Bistra Nikolov joins the Lokomotiv Plovdiv first team