The Lokomotiv Plovdiv Gazette
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Fee done, terms next for Mesut Yusuf
Lokomotiv Plovdiv and Arda have settled on $29.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Lokomotiv Plovdiv go back to the board over Asen Mitkov
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.8M — a club that wants Asen Mitkov enough to be asked twice.
Market31 Aug 2026
Business is business: Enzo Espinoza goes
Beroe paid $580.0K and Lokomotiv Plovdiv took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ryan Leijten 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Vitoria Guimaraes tell Lokomotiv Plovdiv: Patrick Ouotro is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Lokomotiv Plovdiv
Efe Ali 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Lokomotiv Plovdiv against Levski
0‑2 to Levski, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Parvizjon Umarbaev runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Lokomotiv Plovdiv
11 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.
In brief
- The dugout Valentin Vasilev faces the questions
- Transfer targets A loan move for Nikos Grammatikakis is in the works
- Market Andrei Chindriş placed on the list