The Kuban Gazette
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A brace, and Ilja Molteninov takes the afternoon — 8.40
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ilja Molteninov provided it, and the 8.40 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sergey Terekhov signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sergey Terekhov commits to Kuban for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Kuban
Ilja Molteninov 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Saturn join the queue for Evgeny Kovalevskiy
Add another name to the list: Saturn have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Evgeny Kovalevskiy. The answer from Kuban has not changed — yet.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Sergey Terekhov shuts the door
Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sergey Terekhov 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Ilja Molteninov sends Kuban past Murom
It finished 2‑0, and it was Ilja Molteninov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Kuban.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Kuban and Yury Nesterenko
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Kuban, another week without a signature from Yury Nesterenko.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Ilja Moseichuk
Still no offer on the table, and Ilja Moseichuk’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
- Squad Ilja Molteninov finally opens his account
- Market Ilja Kazakov is free to find somewhere else
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Mikhail Yakovlev