Daniel Suárez

Right Forward - Levski
30 Jun 2047
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Suárez

1075 Edition

The Levski Chronicle

4 Mar 2047
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Levski are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 82 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Luis Ramirez signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luis Ramirez and Levski agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Levski

Luis Ramirez 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Raphael Ilsanker

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Raphael Ilsanker will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Levski the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words at Levski training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roman Matvienko 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

Renato Okafor raises the bar for Levski

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Levski heard it as anything else.

In brief

Back issues
1073 Edition

The Levski Chronicle

18 Feb 2047
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Zdravko Minev is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Levski is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Eduardo Duran: 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.” Levski have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Levski

Luis Ramirez 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.

Market

Roman Matvienko wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Levski hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Radoslav Sarmov for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Levski will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

George Ross falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

  • Market Beroe are about to pick up the phone
  • Market Steven Weghorst leaves for nothing
  • Boardroom The Levski production line keeps running
  • Boardroom Levski board back the manager
1014 Edition

The Levski Chronicle

1 Jan 2046
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Luis Ramirez breaks a bone — 16 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Levski refuse to drop out of the race

Position 1, 73 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Levski

The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

Roman Matvienko wins it after the whistle should have gone

93 minutes played. Roman Matvienko found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Dobrudzha went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Market

Zdravko Minev is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Levski is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Player ratings

Both of them Roman Matvienko's — 8.33

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.33, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Roman Matvienko is carrying Levski

25 goals and a season average of 7.33. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Zdravko Minev is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Levski will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Market

Owen Malen 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 Levski, and it is not being withdrawn.

In brief