Marked for Robert Khachatryan
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Sep 2046
A fracture rules Artak Mkhitaryan out for 77 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason BKMA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market17 Sep 2046
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at BKMA is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad17 Sep 2046
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
In brief
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Words at BKMA training over how hard people work
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Robert Khachatryan signs on for more
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Boardroom
The BKMA production line keeps running
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Squad18 Jun 2046
A knee injury of the worst kind for Robert Hakobyan
78 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. BKMA lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match13 Jun 2046
The small margins put BKMA out
Out, 0‑1 to Ararat, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad18 Jun 2046
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match18 Jun 2046
BKMA up to position 2
29 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market18 Jun 2046
BKMA say no — this time
The offer from Shirak for Artak Simonyan was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad18 Jun 2046
A one-man rearguard from Aimar García
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings18 Jun 2046
Robert Khachatryan, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.75
A mark of 7.75 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market18 Jun 2046
“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 BKMA, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market18 Jun 2046
The deal that would have taken Ararat Movsisyan to Shirak has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to BKMA with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
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Steady
Squad16 Apr 2046
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match14 Apr 2046
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings16 Apr 2046
Two goals and a mark of 9.03 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market16 Apr 2046
Artak Simonyan has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around BKMA they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match14 Apr 2046
Nobody wins at BKMA
14 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad16 Apr 2046
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad16 Apr 2046
A muscle injury sidelines Matej Vydra for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. BKMA will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Match14 Apr 2046
Still nobody has beaten BKMA
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad16 Apr 2046
Words at BKMA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ruben Santos 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.
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Steady
Squad26 Mar 2046
A fracture rules Artak Movsisyan out for 109 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason BKMA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match24 Mar 2046
Nobody wins at BKMA
13 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Player ratings26 Mar 2046
Robert Khachatryan, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.76
A mark of 7.76 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market26 Mar 2046
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ararat Movsisyan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around BKMA the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match24 Mar 2046
Hayk Movsisyan among the goals in a wild afternoon
8 goals in one match, Hayk Movsisyan on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of BKMA and Ararat-Armenia.
Squad26 Mar 2046
Words at BKMA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ruben Santos 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.
Match24 Mar 2046
It needed Hayk Movsisyan to find the net to bring anything home at all: 4‑4 against Ararat-Armenia, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad26 Mar 2046
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad26 Mar 2046
Florian Onisiwo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at BKMA will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.