Jhon Jhon

Central Midfielder - Zenit
1 Nov 2026
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Marked for Jhon Jhon

9 Edition

The Zenit Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match26 Sep 2026

Derby day misery for Zenit

Losing 2‑3 is one thing; losing to Spartak Moscow in a derby is a wound that takes months to close.

Match23 Sep 2026

Zenit through in the cup

A 4‑0 win over Textilschik, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Market28 Sep 2026

Zenit may not be able to give Douglas Santos what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Douglas Santos wants continental football; whether Zenit can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Match26 Sep 2026

After 9 games, Zenit finally taste it again

The first defeat in 9 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Spartak Moscow; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Douglas Santos wants to go home

“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 Zenit know it.

Transfer targets28 Sep 2026

João Cancelo stays at Barcelona as time runs out

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

The terraces28 Sep 2026

One of their own: Román Vega

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Vyacheslav Karavaev was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.26. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Felipe Augusto was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.25. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Zenit Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match15 Sep 2026

Zenit take FH apart in Europe

3‑0. Nights like this are why clubs spend decades trying to qualify for this competition, and they arrive perhaps twice in that time. Everybody who was in the ground will describe it badly for years.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Luiz Henrique scores twice — 8.94

Two goals and a mark of 8.94 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Transfer targets21 Sep 2026

Zenit baulk at the price for Svetoslav Vutsov

Levski wanted more than $2.8M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets21 Sep 2026

Jindřich Staněk stays at Slavia Prague as time runs out

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

Transfer targets21 Sep 2026

Zenit rebuffed over João Cancelo

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Barcelona have kept their man, and Zenit go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match19 Sep 2026

Still nobody has beaten Zenit

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market21 Sep 2026

Maxim Glushenkov wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Zenit hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Market21 Sep 2026

Only the photograph left for Kirill Kosarev

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kirill Kosarev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zenit the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Both jobs done by Wílmar Barrios — 7.37

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 14 actions, 7.37, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

In brief

  • Squad A falling-out at Zenit
  • Player ratings Jhon Jhon was on a different afternoon to everybody else
  • Looking ahead All roads lead to Spartak Moscow
7 Edition

The Zenit Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

No thanks: Vedat Muriqi rejects the move

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

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

$2.7M settles it between the clubs for João Cancelo

Barcelona have accepted the money. What Zenit do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

Musa Barrow stays at Al-Khaleej as time runs out

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

Market14 Sep 2026

Not going: Artem Karpukas stays at Zenit

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” NK Varazdin had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

Door shut on Iñaki Peña

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

Boardroom14 Sep 2026

Zenit close the window on a squad of their own making

11 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Market14 Sep 2026

Luiz Henrique wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Zenit hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Real improvement from Maxim Khokhlov at Zenit

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Maxim Khokhlov is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Jhon Jhon stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jhon Jhon and Zenit agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief