David Teles

Central Midfielder - Cherno More
29 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for David Teles

15 Edition

The Cherno More Chronicle

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dimitar Tonev damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

The wait goes on for Cherno More

9 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.

Market

Juan Manuel Toloza puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Cherno More, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Plamen Iliev 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 Cherno More this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Jorge Padilla

“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.

Player ratings

Celso Sidney was the difference for Cherno More

Marked 7.79. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Match

Celso Sidney rescues a point for Cherno More

It needed Celso Sidney to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Septemvri, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad

Vlatko Drobarov asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Player ratings

David Teles runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Cherno More Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dimitar Tonev damages knee ligaments — 53 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 53 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

Daniel Adu-Adjei scores twice — 8.72

Two goals and a mark of 8.72 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

The wait goes on for Cherno More

4 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

Tempers go at Cherno More

Plamen Iliev 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.

The terraces

Cherno More supporters have found a favourite in Daniel Adu-Adjei

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Daniel Adu-Adjei has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

No hiding place for Vasil Panayotov

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

Squad

Siniša Babić 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.

Boardroom

93% of the income goes out in wages at Cherno More

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Match

Cherno More share the spoils with Levski

A 2‑2 draw with Levski leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

5 Edition

The Cherno More Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dimitar Tonev

89 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cherno More lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

The wait goes on for Cherno More

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.

Market

Cherno More get their man

The chase for Ali Aruna ended with $650.0K changing hands and Septemvri out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Squad

Celso Sidney 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 Cherno More this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

$650.0K for Ali Aruna, and Cherno More supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Ali Aruna from Septemvri for $650.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Vasil Panayotov

“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.

Squad

Words at Cherno More training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Siniša Babić 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.

Player ratings

Jannik Pohl Holmsgaard did the work nobody counts — 6.45

9 combined actions and 6.45. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Celso Sidney

A mark of 7.49, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief