Marked for Marat Volkov
From our football correspondent
Steady
The terraces30 Apr 2029
The mood at Yenisey 2 has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market30 Apr 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market30 Apr 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vladislav Kravtsov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Yenisey 2 the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Matteo Nicastro gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Matteo Nicastro has just signed for Yenisey 2, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Marat Volkov 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 Yenisey 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Andrey Sorokin falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Steady
The terraces2 Apr 2029
The mood at Yenisey 2 has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market2 Apr 2029
“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 The request is on a desk at Yenisey 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Dmitry Tashov: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Yenisey 2 have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market2 Apr 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vladislav Kravtsov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Yenisey 2 the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad2 Apr 2029
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Vitaliy Shaparenko is living that version at Yenisey 2, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Marat Volkov 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 Yenisey 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad12 Feb 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Arseny Chulkov, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Feb 2029
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Evgeny Gololobov will call it something else in private.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Marat Volkov 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.
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Uneasy
Market19 Jun 2028
Savely Aristov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Angusht they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Adrian Ziarek falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Luyanda Makhathini 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.
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Uneasy
Market27 Mar 2028
“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 Angusht, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market27 Mar 2028
Savely Aristov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Angusht they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Alexey Naidenov 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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Words at Angusht training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriel Leiva 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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Angusht know it.
Loan watch27 Mar 2028
“I watch every Angusht game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Zenit Penza runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Steady
Squad6 Sep 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match6 Sep 2027
Angusht up to position 1
14 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market6 Sep 2027
“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 Angusht, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Alexey Naidenov 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words at Angusht training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriel Leiva 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Wages eat 103% of everything Angusht earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.79 on the card, and the Angusht support went home talking about one name.
Market6 Sep 2027
Cherepovets are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Angusht will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad16 Aug 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market16 Aug 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Angusht are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Ilja Tikhomirov 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Gabriel Leiva falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match14 Aug 2027
No time for Druzhba to settle
The goal that put Druzhba ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Angusht equalised, 1 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
Loan watch16 Aug 2027
“I watch every Angusht game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Zenit Penza runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Market16 Aug 2027
Kosmos are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Angusht will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Aug 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 60 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Ushindi damages knee ligaments — 17 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 17 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market2 Aug 2027
Bastián Pinto 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 Angusht can pretend not to have heard.
Market2 Aug 2027
Tver come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Angusht did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexey Naidenov and Angusht agree another 2 years.
Squad2 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Angusht this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
18 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Marked 7.62. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.