The Slavia Sofia Sentinel
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ivan Minchev stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ivan Minchev and Slavia Sofia agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Slavia Sofia
Ivan Minchev 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Roberto Iliev
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Lévi Ntumba 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Vladimir Nikolov
A mark of 7.92, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Emil Stoev's contract
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Slavia Sofia are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Match1 Aug 2026
Slavia Sofia and Septemvri take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market3 Aug 2026
Slavia Sofia and Roberto Iliev are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Iliyan Stefanov knocks on the manager's door
- Market Lyubomir Kostov is free to find somewhere else