Amir Batyrev

Defensive Midfielder - Yenisey
31 Aug 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Amir Batyrev

4 Edition

The Yenisey Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Amir Batyrev 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 Yenisey can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Andrey Mazurin runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Yenisey

Nazar Terpugov 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

Andrea Chukanov 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.

Match

Yenisey come up short against Neftekhimik

Neftekhimik left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Alexandr Maslovskiy 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

Back issues
3 Edition

The Yenisey Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Nazar Terpugov 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 Yenisey this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Yenisey training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Chukanov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

No hiding place for Vladis Emmersón

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

Player ratings

Luka Ratković runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Luka Ratković rescues a point for Yenisey

It needed Luka Ratković to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Spartak Kostroma, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad

Luka Ratković is off the mark for Yenisey

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Market

The Andrey Okladnikov story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Andrey Okladnikov signs something — a contract at Yenisey or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market

Gadji Budunov arrives on loan

Yenisey have taken Gadji Budunov on loan from Dinamo Makhachkala — cover where cover was needed.

Market

Gastón Tedesco joins Yenisey on a free

No fee and no drama: Gastón Tedesco has signed at Yenisey, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.

In brief

2 Edition

The Yenisey Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Andrey Mazurin runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 48. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Yenisey

Yegor Ivanov 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

Yan Tses' stays put

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

Match

Yenisey see off Chelyabinsk

Three points for Yenisey, 1‑0 the final word against Chelyabinsk in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Alexandr Kanaplin was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.08. 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.

Market

The clock runs on Andrey Okladnikov's contract

48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Market

Talks stall between Yenisey and Nazar Terpugov

“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.

Squad

Words at Yenisey training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Bogatyrev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Nazar Terpugov has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Yenisey will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

In brief