The CSKA 1948 Chronicle
Squad19 Jul 2027
The knee: Dragan Grivić out for 27 days
27 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. CSKA 1948 lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
Ilker Budinov beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
CSKA 1948 baulk at the price for Carlos Meotti
Botev Plovdiv wanted more than $1.1M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Tempers go at CSKA 1948
Ilker Budinov 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.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
5 academy graduates step up at CSKA 1948
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
CSKA 1948 beat the market to Diogo Gomes from Montana
Montana will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Diogo Gomes has pre-agreed a move to CSKA 1948, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Match17 Jul 2027
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for CSKA 1948. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Market19 Jul 2027
Emil Nedelev steps up from the CSKA 1948 academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Emil Nedelev has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market19 Jul 2027
One of our own: Georgi Zafirov joins the CSKA 1948 first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Georgi Zafirov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market CSKA 1948 promote Kaloyan Chochev from within
- Market One of our own: Lyubomir Yankov joins the CSKA 1948 first team
- Match CSKA 1948 find a way past Beroe