Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shirak know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Shirak they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Shirak have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Shirak they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Shirak they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shirak know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Shirak they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Shirak, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shirak know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Levon Darbinyan has let it be known that he does not like the way Shirak are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Shirak is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Shirak, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Shirak is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Shirak spent the window trying to move Tigran Sumbulyan on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Shirak is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Shirak is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Bartosz Tomaszewski arrives at Shirak with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Shirak, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Suren Tsarukyan has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Shirak spent the window trying to move Ruben Karagulyan on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Shirak can pretend not to have heard.
The fee is $220.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Urartu drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Van go through and Shirak go home, 0-1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Every debut is a small story about the future: Suren Tsarukyan, 21 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Shirak has been clear about where Tigran Sumbulyan stands, which is more than many ever get.
A new face in his position, and Sokrat Hovhannisyan suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Shirak have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.