The Ludogorets Sentinel
Market6 Mar 2028
Mikel Gogorza hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ludogorets can pretend not to have heard.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Ludogorets lose Caio Vidal
48 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market6 Mar 2028
Edvin Kurtuluş wants more than Ludogorets are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad6 Mar 2028
A falling-out at Ludogorets
Hendrik Bonmann and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Olivier Verdon stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Olivier Verdon and Ludogorets agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Words at Ludogorets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Kaloč 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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
Tomás Silva will join Ludogorets for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Tomás Silva has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Ludogorets have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Market6 Mar 2028
Ludogorets promote Ivo Tonev from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ivo Tonev 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
Ludogorets promote Stanimir Delev from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stanimir Delev 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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Edvin Kurtuluş's mistake
- Loan watch Sander Granheim has seen enough of Zlate Moravce
- The dugout No hiding place for Julien Lamy