The Montana Gazette
Market25 Jan 2027
Stefan Statev asks to leave Montana
“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.
Match23 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Montana's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Montana has to find a result from somewhere.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Gabriel Carvalho due for a Montana medical
Everything agreed with Dobrudzha, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Noel López turns down Montana
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Tenerife keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Montana
Luan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market25 Jan 2027
Botev Plovdiv watching Jorginho Soares
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Montana have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Door shut on Sala
Montana asked and Estoril Praia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Montana lose Ivan Petkov
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Aleksandar Todorov 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets Montana try to borrow Mateo Flores
- The dugout David Carmona gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Dimitar Kostadinov on the draw