Rumen Sandev

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Marked for Rumen Sandev

22 Edition

The Marek Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match28 Dec 2026

Marek are in real trouble now

Position 15, 17 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.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Toni Ivanov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match26 Dec 2026

Still nobody has beaten Marek

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.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Veselin Lyubomirov 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.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Words exchanged at Marek

Paulinho Campos 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.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Dimitar Goranov stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Dimitar Goranov and Marek agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

The manager makes an example of Rumen Sandev

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Nikolay Slavchev was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Marek dressing room was either.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

Nikola Videnov left out for tactical reasons at Marek

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Marek Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match7 Nov 2026

6 matches without a win for Marek

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Marek are no longer polite ones.

Match7 Nov 2026

Marek cannot find the net

5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Words at Marek training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dani Martín 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.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Marek

Paulinho Campos 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.

Match7 Nov 2026

A bad afternoon for Marek against Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa

0‑2 to Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Paulinho Campos makes it 100

100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

Market9 Nov 2026

Talks stall between Marek and Kamen Hadzhiev

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

Nikolay Slavchev answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Boardroom9 Nov 2026

93% of the income goes out in wages at Marek

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

In brief

9 Edition

The Marek Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Julian Geerts, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.63

A mark of 7.63 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.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Veselin Lyubomirov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Marek

Kamen Hadzhiev 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Ruslan Pichienko is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words at Marek training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dani Martín 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Aleksandar Dyulgerov is slowing down

At 36, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Match26 Sep 2026

Julian Geerts’s goal not enough for Marek

Julian Geerts scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Sevlievo, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Rumen Sandev

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Nikolay Slavchev left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

1 Edition

The Marek Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad3 Aug 2026

Aleksandar Dyulgerov stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Aleksandar Dyulgerov and Marek agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Marek

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rumen Sandev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market3 Aug 2026

Talks stall between Marek and Aleksandar Dyulgerov

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad3 Aug 2026

7 new faces, and Marek are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Marek

Simeon Mechev 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 targets3 Aug 2026

A loan move for Kristiyan Balov is in the works

Marek have made the call to Crvena Zvezda. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Marek try to borrow Momodou Jobarteh

Paide have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

The afternoon belonged to Aleksandar Dyulgerov

A mark of 7.32, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Nikolay Slavchev on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Nikolay Slavchev after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief