Ivan Luquetta

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Lokomotiv Sofia
6 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ivan Luquetta

5 Edition

The Lokomotiv Sofia Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Erol Dost hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lokomotiv Sofia can pretend not to have heard.

Match

The wait goes on for Lokomotiv Sofia

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Martin Velichkov keeps Lokomotiv Sofia in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Nikita Saltykov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Spartak 1918 come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Lokomotiv Sofia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Dominik Yankov 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 Lokomotiv Sofia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Business is business: Cauê Caruzo goes

Botev Plovdiv paid $640.0K and Lokomotiv Sofia took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Business is business: Jordon Ibe goes

CSKA 1948 paid $100.0K and Lokomotiv Sofia took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Ivan Luquetta

“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.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Lokomotiv Sofia Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Dominik Yankov

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

Squad

Dominik Yankov 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 Lokomotiv Sofia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Nikolay Minkov

“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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Lokomotiv Sofia against Montana

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

Market

Cauê Caruzo told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Cauê Caruzo has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Lokomotiv Sofia.

Squad

A season on the outside for Ivan Luquetta

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Lokomotiv Sofia has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

In brief