Marked for Boris Parsegov
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad15 Oct 2035
Jasurbek Mahmudjonov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom15 Oct 2035
The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.
The dugout15 Oct 2035
The manager makes an example of Boris Parsegov
“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.
The dugout15 Oct 2035
Dmitry Burkin gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Dmitry Burkin is on it.
Squad15 Oct 2035
Young player of the week: Pyotr Fokin
At 20 he was the best of everybody his age in the division for one weekend. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
Squad15 Oct 2035
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Dinamo Vladivostok would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Squad15 Oct 2035
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Nikolay Sukhanov keeps the shirt for now, at Dinamo Vladivostok's convenience rather than his own.
Market15 Oct 2035
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dinamo Vladivostok, another week without a signature from Sergey Reznichenko.
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Steady
Market17 Sep 2035
“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 The request is on a desk at Dinamo Vladivostok, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad17 Sep 2035
Pierre Jouan 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.
Match15 Sep 2035
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Transfer targets17 Sep 2035
Dinamo Vladivostok asked and Nizhniy Novgorod said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Boardroom17 Sep 2035
No fees may be paid for anybody, whatever the squad needs. Every rumour about this club until it lifts is a rumour about a deal that cannot be done.
Squad17 Sep 2035
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Boris Parsegov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 Sep 2035
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Interim Coach after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad17 Sep 2035
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout17 Sep 2035
The manager has not finished forgetting Michael Ulmer's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Uneasy
Market13 Aug 2035
“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.
Transfer targets13 Aug 2035
The deal with Amkar is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Match11 Aug 2035
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dinamo Vladivostok has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad13 Aug 2035
Pierre Jouan and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad13 Aug 2035
Words at Dinamo Vladivostok training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ruben Shaqiri 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.
The dugout13 Aug 2035
This is not rotation. Rodion Safonov has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Dinamo Vladivostok is pretending otherwise.
Squad13 Aug 2035
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Dinamo Vladivostok know it.
The dugout13 Aug 2035
“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.
Player ratings13 Aug 2035
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Squad6 Aug 2035
There were 13 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad6 Aug 2035
17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dinamo Vladivostok lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market6 Aug 2035
“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 Dinamo Vladivostok, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad6 Aug 2035
331 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.
Boardroom6 Aug 2035
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2035
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Dinamo Vladivostok have done the hard part with Dinamo Bryansk, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad6 Aug 2035
Pierre Jouan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match4 Aug 2035
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2035
Dinamo Vladivostok asked and Nizhniy Novgorod said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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Steady
Squad1 Jan 2035
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Dinamo Vladivostok have had the benefit of it.
Squad1 Jan 2035
Dmitry Burkin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad1 Jan 2035
Words at Dinamo Vladivostok training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Ulmer 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.
The dugout1 Jan 2035
This is not rotation. Rodion Safonov has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Dinamo Vladivostok is pretending otherwise.
Squad1 Jan 2035
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Dinamo Vladivostok can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout1 Jan 2035
Ilkka Toivio 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.
Market1 Jan 2035
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dinamo Vladivostok, another week without a signature from Danila Manyak.
The dugout1 Jan 2035
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout1 Jan 2035
Ilkka Toivio has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dinamo Vladivostok will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Player ratings18 Dec 2034
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom18 Dec 2034
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Player ratings18 Dec 2034
Marked 7.69. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout18 Dec 2034
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Interim Coach could afford to be generous.
The dugout18 Dec 2034
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout18 Dec 2034
Teun Wijnaldum dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad18 Dec 2034
One booking too many, and Boris Parsegov sits out. Dinamo Vladivostok lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
The dugout18 Dec 2034
The manager makes an example of Vladlen Lopatin
“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.
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Steady
Squad2 Oct 2034
The match ball belongs to Boris Parsegov, whose 7 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Squad2 Oct 2034
6 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad2 Oct 2034
The knee: Pierre Jouan out for 35 days
35 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dinamo Vladivostok lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match30 Sep 2034
18‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings2 Oct 2034
A brace, and Nikolay Sukhanov takes the afternoon — 8.26
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nikolay Sukhanov provided it, and the 8.26 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings2 Oct 2034
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.18, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings2 Oct 2034
Marked 10.00. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Dinamo Vladivostok.
Squad2 Oct 2034
Dmitry Burkin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match30 Sep 2034
18 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Dinamo Vladivostok and Chelyabinsk 2 in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
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Uneasy
The terraces30 Jan 2034
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad30 Jan 2034
A fracture rules Artem Voropaev out for 26 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dinamo Vladivostok will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad30 Jan 2034
A knee injury of the worst kind for Maxim Zuev
48 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo Vladivostok lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings30 Jan 2034
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.14, and nobody on the pitch better.
Market30 Jan 2034
“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.
Transfer targets30 Jan 2034
The deal with Neftekhimik is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad30 Jan 2034
Dmitry Burkin 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.
Transfer targets30 Jan 2034
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad30 Jan 2034
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tommaso Corti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.