Ayoub Abou

Defensive Midfielder - Septemvri
11 Oct 2026
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7 Edition

The Septemvri Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Faiz Mattoir runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Septemvri

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Words at Septemvri training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastian Musiolik is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Septemvri are at home on the road

3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Match

Septemvri get the job done against Arda

A 1‑0 win over Arda, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Bertrand Fourrier

A mark of 7.90, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief

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5 Edition

The Septemvri Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Edney Ribeiro wins it after the whistle should have gone

94 minutes played. Edney Ribeiro found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Botev Plovdiv went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Squad

Cándido Ramírez 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 Septemvri this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Faiz Mattoir

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Bertrand Fourrier 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Mateo Stamatov

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mateo Stamatov, and the manager let it.

Match

Edney Ribeiro sends Septemvri past Botev Plovdiv

It finished 1‑0, and it was Edney Ribeiro’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Septemvri.

In brief

1 Edition

The Septemvri Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Septemvri say no — this time

The offer from Montana for Ali Aruna was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Faiz Mattoir

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Robin Schouten signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Robin Schouten commits to Septemvri for another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Septemvri

Robin Schouten 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.

Squad

Sebastian Musiolik 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Septemvri against Slavia Sofia

0‑1 to Slavia Sofia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

No hiding place for Ayoub Abou

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ayoub Abou, and the manager let it.

Market

Septemvri and Yanko Georgiev are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Market

49 months and counting on Robin Schouten

Still no offer on the table, and Robin Schouten’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief

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