The Arda Chronicle
Market16 Nov 2026
David Idowu asks to leave Arda
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Aykut Ramadan gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Arda
Emil Viyachki 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ardile Traoré 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
A promise honoured for Martin Paskalev
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Arda told Martin Paskalev something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Patrick Luan 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 Arda, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Emil Viyachki's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
A reunion for Viktor Popov
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Cherno More in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Stanislav Ivanov question follows Arda around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Stanislav Ivanov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: Cherno More at home
- Loan watch Simeon Vasilev first choice at Vorskla