The Kvant Post
Squad3 Aug 2026
Anatoly Semkin has been here 10 seasons
231 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Vitaly Yakovlev stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vitaly Yakovlev and Kvant agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Kvant
Vitaly Yakovlev 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Alexey Chaplygin 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Kvant ask about Nikita Khlusov
A loan enquiry to Dinamo St Petersburg: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Kvant try to borrow Ilja Kazakov
Kuban have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Kvant and Vitaly Yakovlev
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Kvant, another week without a signature from Vitaly Yakovlev.
Market3 Aug 2026
Anatoly Demidov leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Anatoly Demidov leaves Kvant the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Market3 Aug 2026
Lev Akulov leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Lev Akulov leaves Kvant the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Market Marat Volkov leaves for nothing
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: Ryazan at home