Timothy Robert

Right Midfielder - Uralets-TS
4 Apr 2027
Sunday
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Marked for Timothy Robert

33 Edition

The Uralets-TS Gazette

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Uralets-TS

Giovanni Farneti 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.

Squad

Words at Uralets-TS training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wojciech Szafranek 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 dugout

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The dugout

Artem Serikov has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Uralets-TS will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

Rustam Vazitdinov asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

Rodion Konstantinov 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.

Market

The Mikhail Sentyurin question follows Uralets-TS around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mikhail Sentyurin’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market

Still no signature from Anton Polorotov

5 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Uralets-TS could get for him.

Squad

A season on the outside for Tudor Butucel

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Uralets-TS has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

In brief

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32 Edition

The Uralets-TS Gazette

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Uralets-TS are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 47 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Yefim Kolobov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Uralets-TS is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom

Uralets-TS to lose Yefim Kolobov for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Yefim Kolobov has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Nikita Karmaev 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 Uralets-TS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

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Squad

Wojciech Szafranek 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.

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Bogdan Mitin deal

Uralets-TS ran out of time with Astrakhan. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Market

Talks stall between Uralets-TS and Anton Polorotov

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout

Timothy Robert 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.

In brief

31 Edition

The Uralets-TS Gazette

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Remember the name: Artem Serikov

He is 19, he is averaging 7.23, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Market

Maksym Czekała puts it in writing

“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 Uralets-TS, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

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The dugout

Vyacheslav Khudoklinov: 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.” Uralets-TS have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 0 in, 0 out at Uralets-TS

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 0 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets

Alexandr Melikhov will not be coming to Uralets-TS

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Arsenal Tula is saying, and nobody at Uralets-TS is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Tempers go at Uralets-TS

Nikita Karmaev 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.

Transfer targets

Andrey Mazurin stays at Yenisey as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Uralets-TS will try again when the window opens; Yenisey may not be selling by then.

Squad

Maxim Belkovskiy 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.

In brief

29 Edition

The Uralets-TS Gazette

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Yefim Kolobov says Uralets-TS went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Roman Safronov rejects the move

Uralets-TS had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Krasnodar, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

A falling-out at Uralets-TS

Nikita Karmaev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Abdulaziz Al-Hadhood

Uralets-TS asked and KAMAZ said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A row about effort at Uralets-TS

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Wojciech Szafranek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

When it matters, Artem Serikov plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Yegor Zubarev asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

The Mikhail Sentyurin question follows Uralets-TS around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mikhail Sentyurin’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market

The clock does Anton Polorotov’s negotiating for him

6 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Uralets-TS could ask drops and the wages Anton Polorotov can ask rise.

In brief

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The Uralets-TS Gazette

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

At 19, Artem Serikov is already the best thing here

An average of 7.23 in a first team he is several years too young for. Uralets-TS have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Market

Maksym Czekała 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 Uralets-TS can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A falling-out at Uralets-TS

Giovanni Farneti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Uralets-TS

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

Krylya Sovetov 2 end the Uralets-TS run at 5

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 5 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Squad

Tudor Butucel 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.

The dugout

No place for Yefim Kolobov on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Uralets-TS pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Player ratings

Giovanni Farneti was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Mikhail Sentyurin makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief

  • The dugout Timothy Robert gets it from the manager
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Daniil Gerasimov
14 Edition

The Uralets-TS Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Anton Polorotov puts it in writing

“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 Uralets-TS, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Albert Gabaraev keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Uralets-TS may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Wojciech Szafranek scores twice — 9.03

Two goals and a mark of 9.03 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Artem Serikov at 19 — 8.46

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Artem Serikov did not need any: 8.46, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Boardroom

Uralets-TS told to sell

The instruction came from the boardroom and the dugout did not agree with it. Somebody will go, the fee will be called good business, and the manager will spend the season rebuilding around the space.

Squad

A row about effort at Uralets-TS

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Wojciech Szafranek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

Uralets-TS supporters have found a favourite in Artem Serikov

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Artem Serikov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Uralets-TS see off Nosta

Three points for Uralets-TS, 2‑0 the final word against Nosta in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Boardroom

124% of the income goes out in wages at Uralets-TS

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.

In brief

10 Edition

The Uralets-TS Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Uralets-TS out of the cup

Fakel ended it 1‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market

Anton Polorotov 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 Uralets-TS can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Artem Serikov, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.07

A mark of 8.07 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Words exchanged at Uralets-TS

Nikita Karmaev 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.

Player ratings

Timothy Robert beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Mikhail Sentyurin at his very best

Marked 8.24. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Uralets-TS.

Boardroom

123% of the income goes out in wages at Uralets-TS

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.

Match

Uralets-TS caught on 86 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Akron 2 scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Mikhail Sentyurin

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Mikhail Sentyurin has come out of that comparison in the side, and Uralets-TS have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief