The CSKA Sofia Gazette
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Léo Pereira was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 32. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at CSKA Sofia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Isaac Solet was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
CSKA Sofia rebuffed over Felix Tsimba
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Westerlo have kept their man, and CSKA Sofia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Frédéric Maciel stays at CSKA 1948 as time runs out
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. CSKA Sofia will try again when the window opens; CSKA 1948 may not be selling by then.
Match12 Sep 2026
CSKA Sofia find a way past Lokomotiv Plovdiv
Lokomotiv Plovdiv made CSKA Sofia work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A masterclass from Leandro Godoy
Marked 8.08 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
A satisfied Miroslav Minev
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Miroslav Minev could afford to be generous.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Petko Panayotov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at CSKA Sofia will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
Teodor Ivanov faces his old club
CSKA 1948 next, and one man in the CSKA Sofia dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
In brief
- The dugout Cătălin Itu knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The Léo Pereira story refuses to die
- Player ratings A defender's afternoon for Dinis Almeida