Marked for Bartu Göçmen
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match14 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for Shinnik
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Shinnik are no longer polite ones.
Match14 Nov 2026
6 matches without a goal for Shinnik
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 6 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Artur Galoyan 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 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Shinnik told Bartu Göçmen something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Bartu Göçmen 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 Shinnik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match24 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Shinnik
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Shinnik can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Bartu Göçmen
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match24 Oct 2026
Rodina left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Oleg Lanin is still paying for one afternoon at Shinnik
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 4.03, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bartu Göçmen 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniil Kornyushin, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Shinnik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bartu Göçmen, and the manager let it.
Match26 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Artur Galoyan’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Shinnik.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad28 Sep 2026
One booking too many, and Oleg Lanin sits out. Shinnik lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
Artur Cherny 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 Shinnik can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Bartu Göçmen 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Daniil Martovoy has left for Ufa in a $220.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vitaly Lystsov, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Artem Golubev dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Shinnik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Shinnik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Ufa will make the call about Daniil Martovoy this week. Shinnik have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.