The Volna Courier
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
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 targets14 Sep 2026
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
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 dugout14 Sep 2026
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 targets14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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 ahead14 Sep 2026
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
- The dugout Arseny Yagodkin asks for a word with the manager
- Market The Kirill Bogdanets talk will not go away
- Market The clock does Alexandr Volkov’s negotiating for him