4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Lokomotiv Sofia can tell you which week it ends in.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adil Taoui 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.
Erol Dost 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.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Lokomotiv Sofia has been clear about where Bozhidar Katsarov stands, which is more than many ever get.
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lokomotiv Sofia has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Dec 2026
António Eirô 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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Lokomotiv Sofia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against CSKA 1948 in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lokomotiv Sofia has to find a result from somewhere.
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Lokomotiv Sofia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad21 Dec 2026
António Eirô 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.
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Lokomotiv Sofia can tell you which week it ends in.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Krasimir Angelov after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Position 14 and 9 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lokomotiv Sofia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
António Eirô 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.
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Lokomotiv Sofia can tell you which week it ends in.
0‑2 to Beroe, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout26 Oct 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 0‑2 Krasimir Angelov left the room before anybody could ask which.
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Lokomotiv Sofia told Erol Dost something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
A 0‑3 beating by Cherno More was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad5 Oct 2026
António Eirô 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.
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Rosen Ivanov
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Lokomotiv Sofia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.