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Uneasy
Match15 Feb 2027
Every point is an argument now for Dobrudzha
Position 16 and 7 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Rodina is saying, and nobody at Dobrudzha is enjoying the guessing.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Matheus Leoni and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slavia Sofia have kept their man, and Dobrudzha go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Martim Almeida
“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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Dobrudzha would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
Market15 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Malick Fall’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Crisis
Match6 Feb 2027
29 matches without a win for Dobrudzha
The run now stands at 29, and the questions being asked around Dobrudzha are no longer polite ones.
Market8 Feb 2027
Di Cardoso 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 Dobrudzha can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Dobrudzha have done the hard part with Rodina, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
A goal and an assist for Valdu Té — 7.78
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.78 beside his name.
Squad8 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dobrudzha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match6 Feb 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Dobrudzha and Septemvri, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match6 Feb 2027
Valdu Té scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to Septemvri, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. VfL Wolfsburg have kept their man, and Dobrudzha go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market8 Feb 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mihail Petrov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Crisis
Match30 Jan 2027
28 matches without a win for Dobrudzha
The run now stands at 28, and the questions being asked around Dobrudzha are no longer polite ones.
The terraces1 Feb 2027
Anger at Dobrudzha spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Dobrudzha close the window on a squad of their own making
1 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Matheus Leoni 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.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Dobrudzha asked and Sporting CP said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match30 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Di Mateo Lovrić 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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Crisis
Match23 Jan 2027
27 matches without a win for Dobrudzha
The run now stands at 27, and the questions being asked around Dobrudzha are no longer polite ones.
Squad25 Jan 2027
11 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market25 Jan 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match23 Jan 2027
No clean sheets in sight for Dobrudzha
6 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Vladimir Medved ran the middle of the pitch — 7.36
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 16 combined actions and a mark of 7.36, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Squad25 Jan 2027
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Match23 Jan 2027
1‑3 to Ludogorets, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Dobrudzha asked and Catania said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Crisis
Match16 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Dobrudzha
26 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ventsi Marcelinho
15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dobrudzha lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match18 Jan 2027
Every point is an argument now for Dobrudzha
Position 16 and 7 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match16 Jan 2027
Nowhere to hide for Dobrudzha
0‑3 against Botev Plovdiv, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad18 Jan 2027
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
The paperwork begins on Ulises Vera
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Dobrudzha have done the hard part with Quilmes, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Match16 Jan 2027
Dobrudzha are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Match16 Jan 2027
3 matches without a goal for Dobrudzha
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dynamo Kyiv have kept their man, and Dobrudzha go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Crisis
Match9 Jan 2027
25 matches without a win for Dobrudzha
The run now stands at 25, and the questions being asked around Dobrudzha are no longer polite ones.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Ventsi Marcelinho damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
Chastening afternoon for Dobrudzha
A 0‑4 beating by CSKA Sofia was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market11 Jan 2027
Di Cardoso 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 Dobrudzha can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Jan 2027
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Dobrudzha asked and Olympique Lyonnais said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match9 Jan 2027
No clean sheets in sight for Dobrudzha
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Market11 Jan 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Zdravko Aleksandrov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Crisis
Match2 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Dobrudzha
24 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match2 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad4 Jan 2027
200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Lyubomir Kostov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Dynamo Kyiv: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Uneasy
Match26 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Dobrudzha's wait for a win
23 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dobrudzha has to find a result from somewhere.
Market28 Dec 2026
“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 Dobrudzha, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dobrudzha may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad28 Dec 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Dobrudzha
Matheus Leoni 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Dobrudzha
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Di Mateo Lovrić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match26 Dec 2026
A point taken on 91 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Angel Angelov
“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.
Match26 Dec 2026
It needed Valdu Té to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Lokomotiv Sofia, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Crisis
Match19 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Dobrudzha's wait for a win
22 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dobrudzha has to find a result from somewhere.
Match21 Dec 2026
Every point is an argument now for Dobrudzha
Position 16 and 6 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Matheus Leoni and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match19 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Di Mateo Lovrić 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Crisis
Match12 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Dobrudzha's wait for a win
21 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dobrudzha has to find a result from somewhere.
Market14 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market14 Dec 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Plamen Sarmov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Match12 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Looking ahead14 Dec 2026
Slavia Sofia next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivaylo Mihaylov, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Vasil Paskov after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Looking ahead14 Dec 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Slavia Sofia in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Uneasy
Match5 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Dobrudzha's wait for a win
20 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dobrudzha has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad7 Dec 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Malick Fall commits to Dobrudzha for another 4 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Dobrudzha training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Di Mateo Lovrić 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Di Cardoso
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Match5 Dec 2026
It needed Vladimir Medved to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Botev Vratsa, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Crisis
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Dobrudzha's wait for a win
19 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dobrudzha has to find a result from somewhere.
Match28 Nov 2026
0‑3 to Beroe, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match28 Nov 2026
Dobrudzha cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Dobrudzha
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Di Mateo Lovrić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Dimitar Pirgov
“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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
The cruellest goal, and it is Ivaylo Mihaylov's
A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Dobrudzha will not try tonight.
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Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
18 matches without a win for Dobrudzha
The run now stands at 18, and the questions being asked around Dobrudzha are no longer polite ones.
Match23 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Dobrudzha
Position 16 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market23 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Vasil Kaymakanov 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 16 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Dobrudzha are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Dobrudzha told Montassar Triki something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Crisis
Match14 Nov 2026
17 matches without a win for Dobrudzha
The run now stands at 17, and the questions being asked around Dobrudzha are no longer polite ones.
Match14 Nov 2026
0‑3 to CSKA 1948, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Dobrudzha training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Di Mateo Lovrić 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.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Two sides from the bottom of the table, three points, and an afternoon that will be described afterwards as a relegation decider by whoever loses it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Ivaylo Mihaylov
“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.
Boardroom16 Nov 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Dobrudzha
Lyubomir Kostov 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Crisis
Match7 Nov 2026
16 matches without a win for Dobrudzha
The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around Dobrudzha are no longer polite ones.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dobrudzha may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Matheus Leoni 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match7 Nov 2026
Lokomotiv Plovdiv left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market9 Nov 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lachezar Dyakov 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Malick Fall gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Di Mateo Lovrić 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.
Match9 Nov 2026
Halfway: Dobrudzha sit in position 16
4 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
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Uneasy
Match31 Oct 2026
15 matches without a win for Dobrudzha
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Dobrudzha are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Tommaso Ghirardello, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.86
A mark of 7.86 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Dobrudzha
Matheus Leoni 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.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Dimitar Pirgov
“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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Dobrudzha caught on 86 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Montana scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Valdu Té slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Valdu Té is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Match31 Oct 2026
It needed Tommaso Ghirardello to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Montana, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Dobrudzha's wait for a win
14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dobrudzha has to find a result from somewhere.
Match24 Oct 2026
1‑5 to Septemvri, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match26 Oct 2026
Dobrudzha are in real trouble now
Position 16, 3 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market26 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Kolyo Stanev among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Kolyo Stanev on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Dobrudzha and Septemvri.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 8.22 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Di Mateo Lovrić 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
13 matches without a win for Dobrudzha
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Dobrudzha are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Dobrudzha
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Di Mateo Lovrić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match17 Oct 2026
Level with 95 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Dobrudzha had all but put away. Arda will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Plamen Pepelyashev and Dobrudzha agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
The afternoon belonged to Valdu Té
A mark of 7.47, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match17 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Vasil Paskov after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Dobrudzha
12 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
There were 12 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match10 Oct 2026
Chastening afternoon for Dobrudzha
A 1‑4 beating by Ludogorets was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match10 Oct 2026
Dobrudzha leaking at the back
5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kolyo Stanev and Dobrudzha agree another 4 years.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Chavdar Tonev 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Malick Fall, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Dobrudzha
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Di Cardoso was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
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Match3 Oct 2026
11 matches without a win for Dobrudzha
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Dobrudzha are no longer polite ones.
Match3 Oct 2026
3‑4 to Botev Plovdiv, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Match3 Oct 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Dobrudzha and Botev Plovdiv, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match3 Oct 2026
Dobrudzha leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Dobrudzha training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Di Mateo Lovrić 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Dimitar Pirgov
“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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 3‑4 defeat, delivered by Vasil Paskov to a room that had heard them before.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dobrudzha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Dobrudzha
10 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑6 to CSKA Sofia, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match28 Sep 2026
Dobrudzha sink to position 16
2 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad28 Sep 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Chico Teixeira, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match26 Sep 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Dobrudzha and CSKA Sofia in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Dobrudzha
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Di Mateo Lovrić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
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Match19 Sep 2026
1‑5 to Levski, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Dobrudzha's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dobrudzha has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dobrudzha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Dobrudzha and Levski in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Nobody left the Dobrudzha dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑5 defeat, delivered by Vasil Paskov to a room that had heard them before.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mihail Mihaylov and Dobrudzha agree another 3 years.
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Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Dobrudzha
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Dobrudzha are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Matheus Leoni 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Lokomotiv Sofia left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ventsi Marcelinho 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Galin Nedyalkov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Georgi Argilashki
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Dobrudzha will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Dimitar Pirgov 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Vasil Paskov after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Dobrudzha
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Dobrudzha are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A move Martim Almeida would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Martim Almeida is living that version at Dobrudzha, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 22 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Dobrudzha until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at CSKA Sofia is saying, and nobody at Dobrudzha is enjoying the guessing.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Dimitar Pirgov 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Diogo Ressurreição has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Georgi Trifonov, and the manager let it.
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Match29 Aug 2026
0‑3 to Cherno More, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Dobrudzha
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad31 Aug 2026
48 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Boca Juniors have kept their man, and Dobrudzha go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Dobrudzha are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Di Mateo Lovrić, and the manager let it.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Vasil Paskov after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Match19 Aug 2026
Dobrudzha bow out of the cup
Levski go through and Dobrudzha go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Plamen Minev could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.08
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.08, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Match22 Aug 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Dobrudzha
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Botev Vratsa kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Dobrudzha will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Valdu Té scores twice — 8.63
Two goals and a mark of 8.63 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Dobrudzha's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dobrudzha has to find a result from somewhere.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Zdravko Serafimov has come up in conversations Dobrudzha were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Santiago Wanderers have kept their man, and Dobrudzha go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Match15 Aug 2026
2‑5 to Beroe, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match15 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Dobrudzha and Beroe, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Dobrudzha
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Di Mateo Lovrić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
One of those days for Valdu Té
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.15, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.07 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Dobrudzha dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
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Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vladimir Medved and Dobrudzha agree another 3 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. CSKA 1948 have kept their man, and Dobrudzha go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Momchil Kostadinov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stoycho Chochev 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mihail Atanasov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Emil Kostadinov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Diogo Ressurreição, and the manager let it.
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Squad3 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 12 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Matheus Leoni and Dobrudzha agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Dobrudzha
Matheus Leoni 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Dobrudzha asked and Temperley said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match1 Aug 2026
0‑2 to CSKA 1948, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Dobrudzha
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Di Mateo Lovrić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.