The Cherno More Chronicle
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
Match7 Nov 2026
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.
Market9 Nov 2026
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 The request is on a desk at Cherno More, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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 ratings9 Nov 2026
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.
Match7 Nov 2026
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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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 ratings9 Nov 2026
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
- Market The Berk Beyhan question follows Cherno More around
- Loan watch Kristian Tomov first choice at Slavia Sofia