“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cherepovets can pretend not to have heard.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Luki-Energiya is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tver can pretend not to have heard.
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Zenit 2 people have started saying his name in the past tense.
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 1 of them made by a Chertanovo player marked 8.38, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
1 in 1 for Chertanovo. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
7.99 for a Tver player whose contribution is measured entirely in other people's celebrations. The providers' chart is the one nobody frames and everybody in a dressing room reads.
Everybody in the division was measured and a Zenit U21 man came out on top: 8.11 across the month and 7 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
8.11 across the month and 7 goal contributions from a Zenit U21 player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Zenit 2 player marked 7.82, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Saturn is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
5 in 5 for Chertanovo. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Everybody in the division was measured and a Zenit U21 man came out on top: 8.31 across the month and 7 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
8.31 across the month and 7 goal contributions from a Zenit U21 player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
“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 Luki-Energiya, and it is not being withdrawn.
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 7 of them made by a Zenit 2 player marked 8.01, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sergey Agarev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Luki-Energiya the goodbyes have quietly begun.
4 appearances at that mark for Cherepovets. The team of the month is chosen against every player in the division who does his job, which makes it a quieter compliment than an award and a harder one to dispute.
Everybody in the division was measured and a Yenisey U21 man came out on top: 8.05 across the month and 7 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
8.05 across the month and 7 goal contributions from a Yenisey U21 player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tver can pretend not to have heard.
3 assists across the month from a Saturn player marked 7.96. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Arsen Djioev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Saturn the goodbyes have quietly begun.
3 in 4 for Spartak Moscow 2. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
4 appearances at that mark for Dinamo Vologda. The team of the month is chosen against every player in the division who does his job, which makes it a quieter compliment than an award and a harder one to dispute.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Aymane Mourid signs something — a contract at Baltika 2 or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Marked 8.23 across it, 18 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Zenit U21 have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Zenit U21
Pedro was marked 8.23 and had a hand in 18 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Saturn can pretend not to have heard.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Elnur Khalygov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cherepovets the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.41 across 4 matches for Torpedo Vladimir.
5 appearances at 7.27 for Zenit 2, and a selection that says he was better than everybody else in the division doing his job. Nobody frames one of these and everybody remembers being in it.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Cherepovets, another week without a signature from David Berezov.
Marked 8.34 across it, 16 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Zenit U21 have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Zenit U21
Pedro was marked 8.34 and had a hand in 16 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Saturn people have started saying his name in the past tense.
The offer from Cherepovets for Nikita Yeremenko 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.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Cherepovets is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
6 assists, 8.01, and a Zenit 2 player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Everybody in the division was measured and a Tver man came out on top: 7.63 across the month and 5 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Tver waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Cherepovets is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Maxim Shichanin had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
7.77 across the month and 4 goal contributions from a Yenisey U21 player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Luki-Energiya can pretend not to have heard.
The offer from Orenburg for Aymane Mourid 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.
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 5 of them made by a Dinamo Vologda player marked 7.88, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.