From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Eric Ocansey 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 Pyunik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Sandro Altunashvili 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.
Squad9 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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From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Pyunik
Sandro Altunashvili 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Henri Avagyan 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
332% of the income goes out in wages at Pyunik
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 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 Pyunik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Pyunik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edinson Chávez 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Sead Islamović has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Pyunik will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 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 Pyunik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Pyunik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sandro Altunashvili 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Pyunik
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sargis Metoyan and Pyunik agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Eric Ocansey 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 Pyunik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Pyunik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Taijo Teniste 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Pyunik
Eric Ocansey 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Edinson Chávez 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 536% of everything Pyunik earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Pyunik
Lucas Villela 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Sandro Altunashvili 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Daniel Aghbalyan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Pyunik
Eric Ocansey 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Taijo Teniste 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
8 new faces, and Pyunik are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 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 Pyunik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Pyunik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edinson Chávez 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jesús Cortéz has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Pyunik know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Pyunik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sandro Altunashvili 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
374% of the income goes out in wages at Pyunik
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Pyunik would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 Aug 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.
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
Tempers go at Pyunik
Lucas Villela 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Noah pay $100.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Pyunik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Henri Avagyan 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Torpedo Kutaisi are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Pyunik will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Pyunik
1‑1 against Van, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Edgar Malakyan yet — 8.18
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.18 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market24 Aug 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.
Market24 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Martin Ramsland again, and this time the name on the line is Paralimni. Pyunik are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 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 Pyunik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Edinson Chávez 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.
In brief
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Squad
This league is too small for Edinson Chávez
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Player ratings
The kick that got away from Momo Yansané
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Squad
8 new faces, and Pyunik are still learning each other
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Sandro Altunashvili has just signed for Pyunik, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Eric Ocansey 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 Pyunik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Sandro Altunashvili 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Pyunik have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Pyunik will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market17 Aug 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Noah will make the call about Edgar Malakyan this week. Pyunik have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Eric Ocansey 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 Pyunik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Pyunik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Taijo Teniste 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Viacheslav Afyan has come up in conversations Pyunik were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Matas Vareika
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Taijo Teniste
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Pyunik will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: AE Kition have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Sargis Metoyan. The answer from Pyunik has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marius Noubissi and Pyunik agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Pyunik
Eric Ocansey 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 21 days on the sidelines for Matas Vareika, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Pyunik, another week without a signature from Lucas Villela.