15 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process
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The BKMA Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

BKMA bid $1.4M for Edgar Piloyan

The offer went to Alashkert this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market

Jamal Dibirgadjiev attracts admirers

The name of Jamal Dibirgadjiev has come up in conversations BKMA were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Tempers go at BKMA

Argishti Petrosyan 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.

Squad

Taha Balcı 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.

Market

BKMA promote Levon Simonyan from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Levon Simonyan has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Tigran Haroyan joins the BKMA first team

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

In brief

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The BKMA Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Jamal Dibirgadjiev gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jamal Dibirgadjiev has just signed for BKMA, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Argishti Petrosyan stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Argishti Petrosyan and BKMA agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Martin Grigoryan comes home

The shirt still fits. Martin Grigoryan is back at BKMA, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Squad

Argishti Petrosyan 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 BKMA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Jamal Dibirgadjiev 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.

Market

Still no ink between BKMA and Narek Hovhannisyan

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

In brief