The Alashkert Post
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Alashkert
Karen Nalbandyan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Ferro Carril Oeste tell Alashkert: Leonel Szalich 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Kajally Drammeh attracts admirers
The name of Kajally Drammeh has come up in conversations Alashkert were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Alashkert count the cost of losing Serob Grigoryan
24 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Alashkert try to borrow Juan Pablo Rial
San Telmo have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
A loan move for Jeremías Castro is in the works
Alashkert have made the call to San Martín SJ. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Hamed Abdulhameed
“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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
No place for Nehemías Portillo in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Alashkert are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Philip Ejike gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Philip Ejike is on it.
In brief
- Squad Competition arrives for Mômô Fanyé Touré
- Market Alashkert bring in Nehemías Portillo on loan
- Market The Vlad Chatunts question follows Alashkert around