The Uni-X Labs Gazette
Squad5 Oct 2026
The knee: Arol Ngintsop out for 37 days
37 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Uni-X Labs lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Uni-X Labs
Egor Semenov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The decline has begun for Egor Semenov
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 38 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Uni-X Labs is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
129% of the income goes out in wages at Uni-X Labs
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Uni-X Labs training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergey Bulynenok 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Roman Durko
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roman Durko, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market Uni-X Labs and Roman Babaev are talking past each other
- Market The Vladimir Popov story refuses to die
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Vladimir Popov