The Spartak Pleven Herald
Market14 Jun 2027
Spartak Pleven spend $390.0K to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $390.0K has been paid because Saad Moukachar is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A move Janik Rutz would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Janik Rutz is living that version at Spartak Pleven, and it tends to show in the first month.
The terraces14 Jun 2027
Spartak Pleven spend $390.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $390.0K for Saad Moukachar, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Boardroom14 Jun 2027
Spartak Pleven agree a free transfer for Asparuh Smilkov
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words at Spartak Pleven training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Jablonský 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.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Fratria tell Spartak Pleven: Viktor Mitev is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Spartak Pleven
Miguel Pereira 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
Spartak Pleven promote Atanas Bodurov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Atanas Bodurov 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
One of our own: Tsvetan Bozhikov joins the Spartak Pleven first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tsvetan Bozhikov 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 Spartak Pleven promote Ivan Dyakov from within
- Squad Maksymilian Rozwandowicz stays put
- Transfer targets A loan move for Asen Mitkov is in the works