Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Mlada Boleslav waiting with a shirt. Nobody at CSKA Sofia is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. Sevlievo will replay every second of the added time for a week.
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Dobrudzha had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
“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 The request is on a desk at CSKA Sofia, and it is not being withdrawn.
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Fedor Lapoukhov was one of the reasons people came, and $3.5M does not replace that by itself.
The offer from Ludogorets for Lumbardh Dellova was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Ludogorets had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
The offer from AEL Larisa for Ioannis Pittas was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Two goals and a mark of 8.38 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Isaac Solet has gone, the accounts have $3.8M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
The chase for Edvin Kurtuluş ended with $3.0M changing hands and Ludogorets out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Lokomotiv Plovdiv paid $3.8M and CSKA Sofia took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
7.99, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Sheffield Wednesday keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at CSKA Sofia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The offer from Cherno More for Pastor was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
CSKA Sofia have gone to Ludogorets with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ludogorets have kept their man, and CSKA Sofia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
CSKA Sofia have gone to CSKA 1948 with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.1M — a club that wants Dragan Grivić enough to be asked twice.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Farense keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
James Eto'o and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at CSKA Sofia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Léo Pereira 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at CSKA Sofia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at CSKA Sofia hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether CSKA Sofia can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
James Eto'o 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.
Still no offer on the table, and James Eto'o’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.