Isaac Solet

Defensive Midfielder - CSKA Sofia
18 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Isaac Solet

7 Edition

The CSKA Sofia Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

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.

Squad

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 targets

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 targets

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.

Match

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 ratings

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 dugout

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 dugout

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 ahead

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

Back issues
6 Edition

The CSKA Sofia Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Ilian Iliev asks to leave CSKA Sofia

“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.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 10 signed and 10 gone

That is the business done at CSKA Sofia 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

Frédéric Maciel is a medical away from CSKA Sofia

The deal with CSKA 1948 is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Tempers go at CSKA Sofia

Mohamed Brahimi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Transfer targets

CSKA Sofia rebuffed over Frédéric Maciel

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. CSKA 1948 have kept their man, and CSKA Sofia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

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 targets

Jenluis Pérez stays at Nueva Chicago 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; Nueva Chicago may not be selling by then.

Squad

Leandro Godoy named player of the month

The award goes to Leandro Godoy, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.

Squad

CSKA Sofia are still strangers to each other

7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

In brief

4 Edition

The CSKA Sofia Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cup progress for CSKA Sofia

A 3‑1 win over Botev Vratsa, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Ivan Tasev runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Lumbardh Dellova puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at CSKA Sofia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Petko Panayotov, 21, steals the show — 7.86

Marked 7.86 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market

CSKA Sofia turn down Montana for Petko Panayotov

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

CFR Cluj join the queue for Fedor Lapoukhov

Add another name to the list: CFR Cluj have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Fedor Lapoukhov. The answer from CSKA Sofia has not changed — yet.

Player ratings

Bruno Jordão goes up and wins it — 7.75

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.75 for the rest of it.

Transfer targets

An offer of $680.0K for Marto Boychev

CSKA Sofia have gone to CSKA 1948 with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Hugo Weckmann

CSKA Sofia asked and Las Palmas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

  • The terraces The crowd has taken to Ivan Tasev
  • Player ratings Ninety minutes of Leandro Godoy at his very best
  • Squad Words at CSKA Sofia training over how hard people work
3 Edition

The CSKA Sofia Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Leandro Godoy leads the rout of Arda

3‑0, and Leandro Godoy took the headlines on an afternoon when everything CSKA Sofia tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

A brace, and Leandro Godoy takes the afternoon — 8.90

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Leandro Godoy provided it, and the 8.90 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Transfer targets

CSKA Sofia make their move for Ammar Ramadan

$5.0M on the table at DAC Dunajska Streda. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

The terraces

A $5.0M sale, and a town that did not want it

James Eto'o has gone, the accounts have $5.0M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Market

Business is business: James Eto'o goes

Cotonsport Garoua paid $5.0M and CSKA Sofia took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Transfer targets

Levski tell CSKA Sofia: Christian Makoun 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.

Market

Ioannis Pittas attracts admirers

The name of Ioannis Pittas has come up in conversations CSKA Sofia were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Maks Ebong 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 CSKA Sofia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

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.

In brief