The Ararat Post
The dugout6 Mar 2028
Kurban Rasulov: 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.” Ararat have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
A brace, and Brian Oddei takes the afternoon — 8.47
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Brian Oddei provided it, and the 8.47 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market6 Mar 2028
Only the photograph left for Lamine Fofana
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lamine Fofana will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ararat the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets6 Mar 2028
Antônio Marcos due for a Ararat medical
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Tempers go at Ararat
Albert Khachumyan 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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Ararat
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
Lamine Fofana frozen out at Ararat
This is not rotation. Lamine Fofana has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Ararat is pretending otherwise.
Market6 Mar 2028
Ararat promote Karen Grigoryan from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Karen Grigoryan 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
Hakob Ghazaryan steps up from the Ararat academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hakob Ghazaryan 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Robert Khachatryan joins the Ararat first team
- Squad Nemanja Mijušković is not the player he was
- Match Ararat rescue it on 95 minutes