He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. CSKA Moscow have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
At 32 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. CSKA Moscow have a decision that made itself.
Market20 Sep 2027
The window shut and Nathan is still in the building
CSKA Moscow spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what CSKA Moscow can pretend not to have heard.
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. CSKA Moscow have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
In brief
The terracesThe press cannot get enough of Kirill Glebov
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at CSKA Moscow hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
A season average of 7.09 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. CSKA Moscow know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
The name of Henrique Carmo has come up in conversations CSKA Moscow were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” CSKA Moscow have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. CSKA Moscow know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Nathan has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at CSKA Moscow, and 1 appearances in 27 say he has earned the hearing.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” CSKA Moscow have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at CSKA Moscow hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
A season average of 7.01 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. CSKA Moscow know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Orenburg will want this one forgotten quickly: 3-0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. CSKA Moscow were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” CSKA Moscow have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Torpedo Kutaisi made CSKA Moscow work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
111% of the income goes out in wages at CSKA 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.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. CSKA Moscow know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
The terracesThe press have found their man in Dmitry Vorobjov
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at CSKA Moscow pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.