Vanderlei

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Torpedo Moscow
16 Jan 2027
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Marked for Vanderlei

23 Edition

The Torpedo Moscow Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Nothing got past Daniil Utkin

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 37 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Rostislav Soldatenko keeps Torpedo Moscow in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad4 Jan 2027

The season belongs to Vladislav Shitov

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Torpedo Moscow have had the benefit of it.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Sergey Borodin shuts the door

Defensive actions: 25, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Match2 Jan 2027

The wait goes on for Torpedo Moscow

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

A defender's afternoon for Alexandr Ivankov

Defensive actions: 23. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Mario Ćurić 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad4 Jan 2027

The manager makes an example of Vanderlei

“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.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Nobody could get near Alexandr Lomovitskiy

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Torpedo Moscow Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad14 Sep 2026

Kirill Gotsuk out for 111 days

The medical room confirms 111 days on the sidelines for Kirill Gotsuk, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Mario Ćurić 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match12 Sep 2026

A bad afternoon for Torpedo Moscow against Ufa

0‑2 to Ufa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Mario Ćurić gets it from the manager

“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.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Ilja Berkovskiy

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Vanderlei knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Torpedo Moscow, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Vladislav Shitov leaves them behind him

Shots: 4. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Off the pace: Vanderlei

A mark of 5.44 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

Market14 Sep 2026

The Sergey Borodin talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Torpedo Moscow know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

6 Edition

The Torpedo Moscow Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Alexandr Lomovitskiy

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Vanderlei 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

836% of the income goes out in wages at Torpedo Moscow

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.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

One of those days for Vladislav Shitov

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.80, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad7 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Alexandr Ivankov

“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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Sergey Borodin named player of the month

The award goes to Sergey Borodin, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.

Match5 Sep 2026

Torpedo Moscow share the spoils with Chaika

A 2‑2 draw with Chaika leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Market7 Sep 2026

Torpedo Moscow and Ruslan Apekov are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad7 Sep 2026

The armband comes off Alexey Kashtanov

Torpedo Moscow will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

In brief

4 Edition

The Torpedo Moscow Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market24 Aug 2026

Only the photograph left for Mamadou Camara

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mamadou Camara will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Torpedo Moscow the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market24 Aug 2026

Roman Denisov is a Torpedo Moscow player

The fee is $120.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. KDV Tomsk drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Torpedo Moscow

Mario Ćurić 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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Sergey Borodin in the eights

A performance of 9.41 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match22 Aug 2026

Vladislav Shitov the difference as Torpedo Moscow beat Fakel

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Vladislav Shitov. 2‑1 against Fakel, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Alexandr Yushin

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market24 Aug 2026

Chelyabinsk watching Mikhail Volkov

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Torpedo Moscow have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Rostislav Soldatenko gets it from the manager

“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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Vladislav Shitov in the eights

A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief