Ivan Krasilschikov

Central Defender - Mantova
6 Aug 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ivan Krasilschikov

103 Edition

The Mantova Herald

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Antonio Fiori 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 Mantova can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Pietro Teixeira Falcetta

Mantova and AS Roma have settled on $1.6M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Giovanni Andrea Cardu rejects the move

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Nicolò Baldo

Mantova asked and Atalanta 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 falling-out at Mantova

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

The dugout

Antonio Fiori knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mantova, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Rareş Ilie question follows Mantova around

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

Squad

Francesco Bardi wants to know why he earns less

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Mantova have no good answer.

Market

Rareş Ilie placed on the list

Mantova have made Rareş Ilie available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

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The Murom Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Ivan Krasilschikov 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 The request is on a desk at Murom, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Murom

Denis Faizullin 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

Philipp Dvoretskov 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.

Looking ahead

The big one: Kaluga come into view

Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Murom will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.

Squad

Danil Shatalov is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Danil Shatalov has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Ruslan Bolov

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Ruslan Bolov has come out of that comparison in the side, and Murom have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Market

No place for Alikadi Saidov in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Alikadi Saidov has his answer from Murom; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Boardroom

Murom counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Murom now.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ruslan Babayan

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ruslan Babayan, and the manager let it.

In brief