Sven Sopić

Central Defender - Ryazan
7 Sep 2031
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Marked for Sven Sopić

257 Edition

The Ryazan Post

30 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market30 Jun 2031

Duvier Díaz asks to leave Ryazan

“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 Jun 2031

Artyom Kolesnikov is a medical away from Ryazan

The deal with Volgar 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.

Transfer targets30 Jun 2031

Artyom Kolesnikov will not be coming to Ryazan

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Volgar is saying, and nobody at Ryazan is enjoying the guessing.

Squad30 Jun 2031

Tempers go at Ryazan

Taras Gagloev 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.

Squad30 Jun 2031

Duvier Díaz 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 targets30 Jun 2031

Rodina tell Ryazan: Pyotr Glushakov is not for sale

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.

The dugout30 Jun 2031

Anton Bolshakov 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.

Boardroom30 Jun 2031

Ryazan are $6.3M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

The dugout30 Jun 2031

Duvier Díaz asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

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254 Edition

The Ryazan Post

9 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad9 Jun 2031

The knee: Vladimir Zaytsev out for 18 days

18 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ryazan lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market9 Jun 2031

Only the photograph left for Vladlen Titov

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vladlen Titov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ryazan the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad9 Jun 2031

Taras Gagloev in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ryazan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad9 Jun 2031

Duvier Díaz 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.

The dugout9 Jun 2031

Ivan Ivaschenko 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.

Market9 Jun 2031

Still no ink between Ryazan and Vitaly Nem

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Ryazan, another week without a signature from Vitaly Nem.

The dugout9 Jun 2031

Vitaly Nem knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vitaly Nem trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market9 Jun 2031

Ryazan bring in an old head

Andrii Busko is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

The dugout9 Jun 2031

Ryazan keep their word to Sven Sopić

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.

In brief

176 Edition

The Cibalia Chronicle

10 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match10 Dec 2029

Cibalia refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 33 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market10 Dec 2029

Sven Sopić hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cibalia can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout10 Dec 2029

Matěj Hrazdíra says Cibalia went back on their word

“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.

Squad10 Dec 2029

Words exchanged at Cibalia

Josip Mitrović 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.

Squad10 Dec 2029

Arian Mršulja 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.

The dugout10 Dec 2029

Domagoj Đurković asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market10 Dec 2029

The Niko Farkaš talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Cibalia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market10 Dec 2029

Andrija Bubnjar placed on the list

Cibalia have made Andrija Bubnjar available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Market10 Dec 2029

Still no signature from Domagoj Đurković

6 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Cibalia could get for him.

In brief