Milko Nedelev

Central Defender - Etar
28 Aug 2036
Thursday
Process

Marked for Milko Nedelev

524 Edition

The Etar Sentinel

11 Aug 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Bojidar Nedelev has said yes to Hebar

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Etar have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Milko Nedelev puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Etar, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

No end in sight to Etar's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Etar has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Dzhaner Sadetinov pops up at the right end — 7.66

7.66, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Market

Erkan Karaman has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Etar they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Charles Nainggolan

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Etar have done the hard part with CSKA Sofia, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Charles Nainggolan rejects the move

Etar had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at CSKA Sofia, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Words exchanged at Etar

Maciej Pietrzyk and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets

Ludogorets tell Etar: Miroslav Marinov 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.

In brief

Back issues
493 Edition

The Etar Sentinel

7 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Erkan Karaman damages knee ligaments — 34 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 34 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The dugout

Milko Nedelev: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Etar have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Angel Nedelkov asks to leave Etar

“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.

Squad

A falling-out at Etar

Agustín Caciorgna and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom

Matteo Obleac will join Etar for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Matteo Obleac has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Etar have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Squad

Words at Etar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Pioli 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 targets

Door shut on Pavlin Chilikov

Etar asked and Sportist Svoge said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Etar and Lucas Pioli are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Transfer targets

Etar ask about Antonio Panin

A loan enquiry to Levski: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

486 Edition

The Etar Sentinel

19 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Erkan Karaman

83 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Etar lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout

Juan Marín: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Etar have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Etar

Agustín Caciorgna and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Words at Etar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Pioli 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.

Market

The Dzhaner Sadetinov talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Etar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

The manager makes Miguel Araujo a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Etar. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief