Petar Vutsov

Central Defender - Sevlievo
19 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Petar Vutsov

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The Sevlievo Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 31 signed and 18 gone

That is the business done at Sevlievo until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets

Stanley Amon due for a Sevlievo medical

Everything agreed with Bayelsa United, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

A falling-out at Sevlievo

Jonathan De Bie and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Sevlievo rebuffed over Mitko Mitkov

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lokomotiv Sofia have kept their man, and Sevlievo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Preslav Antonov 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.

Squad

The formation has left Maroine Mihoubi behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Sevlievo will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Market

Still no ink between Sevlievo and Maroine Mihoubi

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Sevlievo, another week without a signature from Maroine Mihoubi.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Sevlievo

20 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

Viktor Ergin knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Sevlievo, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

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3 Edition

The Sevlievo Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Stilyan Paskov

30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sevlievo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Sevlievo taken apart

0‑3 to Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad

8 saves: Jonathan De Bie was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

Petar Vutsov arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Petar Vutsov has, at Sevlievo, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Jonathan De Bie in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sevlievo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Sevlievo rebuffed over Kaloyan Kostov

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lokomotiv Sofia have kept their man, and Sevlievo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Jonathan De Bie

“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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Sevlievo dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Market

Sevlievo and Hristo Kaymakanski 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