Marked for Maxim Sofin
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Kvant
Anton Polorotov 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Kvant training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artemy Ositsin 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
0‑2 to Dinamo Bryansk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Alexey Naidenov is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at Kvant, and it is a cruel one.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Marked 4.72, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Artemy Medvedev
“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.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 12. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
9 matches without a win for Kvant
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Kvant are no longer polite ones.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Kvant
Alexey Naidenov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Kvant training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anton Polorotov 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Artiom Zabun ran the middle of the pitch — 6.95
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 11 combined actions and a mark of 6.95, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Match21 Nov 2026
Level with 85 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Kvant had all but put away. Orel will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Match21 Nov 2026
It needed Nikita Baranov to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Orel, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Maxim Sofin 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Viktor Kokorin was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Kvant dressing room was either.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Kvant
0‑2 against Textilschik, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Kvant
Anton Polorotov 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Luki-Energiya have kept their man, and Kvant go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match22 Aug 2026
Kvant come up short against Salyut
Salyut left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Ageev, and the manager let it.
Market24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
10 new faces, and Kvant are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Kvant will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.