The Lokomotiv Sofia Post
Match11 Feb 2036
Lokomotiv Sofia are in real trouble now
Position 15, 25 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market11 Feb 2036
Lorenzo Cavani 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 The request is on a desk at Lokomotiv Sofia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings11 Feb 2036
A brace, and Cristian Acatullo takes the afternoon — 8.43
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Cristian Acatullo provided it, and the 8.43 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match9 Feb 2036
At last: Lokomotiv Sofia win one
6 matches without a win, and then this, against Vihren. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Transfer targets11 Feb 2036
CSKA Sofia tell Lokomotiv Sofia: Filippo Palazzino 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.
Match9 Feb 2036
Lokomotiv Sofia see off Vihren
Three points for Lokomotiv Sofia, 2‑1 the final word against Vihren in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad11 Feb 2036
Words exchanged at Lokomotiv Sofia
Guzmán Trucido 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.
Market11 Feb 2036
One of our own: Kaloyan Chochev joins the Lokomotiv Sofia first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kaloyan Chochev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Feb 2036
Lokomotiv Sofia promote Deyan Nedelev from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Deyan Nedelev 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
- Market Miroslav Petrov steps up from the Lokomotiv Sofia academy
- Transfer targets Stanislav Tanev stays at Sevlievo as time runs out
- Squad Bistra Marcelinho signs on for more