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Marked for Son

2 Edition

The Ludogorets Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market10 Aug 2026

Ludogorets turn down Ferencvaros for Kwadwo Duah

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

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Caio Vidal

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Petar Stanić signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Petar Stanić and Ludogorets agree another 4 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Caio Vidal 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 Ludogorets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Hendrik Bonmann 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Mihail Petkov joins the Ludogorets first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mihail Petkov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Bistra Mladenov joins the Ludogorets first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bistra Mladenov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market10 Aug 2026

Lyubomir Bozhikov steps up from the Ludogorets academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Lyubomir Bozhikov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Match8 Aug 2026

Ludogorets get the job done against CSKA Sofia

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

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Ludogorets Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match1 Aug 2026

Ludogorets taken apart

0‑3 to Levski, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A one-man rearguard from Hendrik Bonmann

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market3 Aug 2026

Ludogorets turn down Slaven Belupo for Erick Marcus

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

Squad3 Aug 2026

Georgi Terziev has been here 13 seasons

274 appearances across 13 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Market3 Aug 2026

Caio Vidal wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Ludogorets hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Hendrik Bonmann signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Hendrik Bonmann and Ludogorets agree another 2 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Ludogorets

Hendrik Bonmann 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Eric Bile attracts admirers

The name of Eric Bile has come up in conversations Ludogorets were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market3 Aug 2026

Still no ink between Ludogorets and Son

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Ludogorets, another week without a signature from Son.

In brief

  • Boardroom Nobody left the Ludogorets dressing room in a hurry
  • Player ratings Off the pace: Son
  • Player ratings Nobody could get near Eric Bile