The Volga Sentinel
Market11 Jan 2027
Kamil Ibragimov 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 Volga can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
A brace, and Vladislav Yakovlev takes the afternoon — 9.00
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Vladislav Yakovlev provided it, and the 9.00 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Artur Murza
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Kirill Folmer frozen out at Volga
This is not rotation. Kirill Folmer has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Volga is pretending otherwise.
Match9 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Volga's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Volga has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Volga
Kirill Folmer 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 dugout11 Jan 2027
No hiding place for Andrey Kostin
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrey Kostin, and the manager let it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Volga
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oleg Krasilnichenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Time is catching up with Jackson Caucaia
Everybody at Volga saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 40 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
In brief
- Match Volga rescue it on 92 minutes
- Match Volga and Chaika take a point apiece
- The dugout Vasily Fomin: “We have to be better”