Marked for Ingo Ott
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Oct 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tulevik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Oct 2030
43 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad28 Oct 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rohan Vaughan, and the manager let it.
In brief
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Squad
Daniel Luts knocks on the manager’s door
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Boardroom
The Tulevik production line keeps running
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 Sep 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tulevik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Sep 2030
71 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad30 Sep 2030
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad2 Sep 2030
“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.
Squad2 Sep 2030
Jesús Amarilla 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.
Squad2 Sep 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mario Ramírez commits to Tulevik for another 2 years.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Aug 2030
Jesús Amarilla 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.
Squad5 Aug 2030
Ingo Ott out for 129 days
The medical room confirms 129 days on the sidelines for Ingo Ott, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad5 Aug 2030
The manager makes an example of Nikita Ivlev
“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.