Levski Sofia Get Punk’d.

Who knew Ashton Kutcher is so big into Bulgarian football?

The details and truths are scarce, but the quotes leaving us rife with the possibility for assumptions. Levski “sold” four of their top players to Russian champions Rubin Kazan last week in an alarmingly large deal. (Four players to one team in one deal? Come on.) But not alarmingly large enough for the Bulgarians to think twice about putting their players on a plane to Russia. From where they immediately returned, contracts unsigned.

According to two of the players – those involved were Bulgaria right back Zhivko Milanov, Morocco central defender Youssef Rabeh, Macedonia midfielder Darko Tasevski and Brazilian winger Ze Soares – the deal was never kosher:

“You have to ask the management for the deal failure,” Tasevski told btv. “I have no idea. I feel oppressed and I’m angry. Things could’ve been different if we played against CSKA.”

Bazhdekov was also disappointed.

“It seems like someone played a dirty trick on us,” he said.

While these four “key” players were in Russia, Levski took on heated rivals and table toppers CSKA, also of Sofia. Levski lost the match, to the tune of a 2-0 scoreline, and the words of Tasevski and Bazhdekovstart to indicate what might just have happened in our own little perfect world of chicanery.

Did CSKA really pull off the greatest prank of all-time, getting their hated neighbors to believe they’d brokered a big deal and in turn leaving them short-handed for the derby? Levski would never give them the satisfaction of publicly admitting so, but in our perfect little world, this is precisely what happened – with Ashton Kutcher nowhere to be found.

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