Ivan Migunov

Goalkeeper - Volna
19 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ivan Migunov

7 Edition

The Volna Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kirill Bogdanets

25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Volna lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Anton Yevdokimov has said yes to Kvant

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Volna have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 10 in, 4 out at Volna

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 10 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Maxim Danilin

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

Market

One of our own: Nikolai Zaytsev joins the Volna first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nikolai Zaytsev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout

Ivan Migunov 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.

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Pavel Golubkov deal

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

Squad

A row about effort at Volna

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

Looking ahead

A test against the best for Volna

The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Akron 2.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Volna Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Kirill Bogdanets out for 32 days

32 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Volna lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Ivan Severjanov 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 Volna, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Volna turn down Kuban for Alexandr Volkov

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Pavel Popov 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 Volna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Pavel Golubkov

Volna asked and Rodina 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

Volna lose Ivan Ananjev

17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Denis Kaikov slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Denis Kaikov is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Market

Legion are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Volna will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Market

Talks stall between Volna and Alexandr Volkov

“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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Volna Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Irkutsk come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Volna did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Ivan Migunov keeps Volna in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

A falling-out at Volna

Dmitry Rebrov 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 Amirkhan Selyaev

Volna asked and Spartak Nalchik said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Volna promote Igor Sidorov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Igor Sidorov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Anatoly Milyukov steps up from the Volna academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Anatoly Milyukov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Platon Mamonov steps up from the Volna academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Platon Mamonov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Match

KDV Tomsk take the points off Volna

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Gocha Gogrichiani 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