From our football correspondent
Steady
Market8 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Barnaul can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ivan Zhitnikov commits to Dinamo Barnaul for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Alexandr Usov 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 Dinamo Barnaul, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market8 Mar 2027
The name of Kirill Mogel keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Dinamo Barnaul say nothing, which says plenty.
Market8 Mar 2027
“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.
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Steady
Market15 Feb 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market15 Feb 2027
Kvant come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Dinamo Barnaul did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The medical room confirms 50 days on the sidelines for Islam Vagabov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market15 Feb 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Dinamo Barnaul have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Dmitry Bakay
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market15 Feb 2027
Dinamo Barnaul have made Vasily Ilik available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Uneasy
Market16 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Barnaul can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 34 days on the sidelines for Anton Shadura, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Uneasy
Market9 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Dmitry Bakay: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dinamo Barnaul have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market9 Nov 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Uneasy
Market19 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Barnaul can pretend not to have heard.
Match17 Oct 2026
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Dinamo Barnaul are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dmitry Tsvetkov and Dinamo Barnaul agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.