The Akron Chronicle
Squad14 Sep 2026
8 saves: Vitaly Gudiev was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match12 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Akron
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 4 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at Akron until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Door shut on Danila Vedernikov
Akron asked and Orenburg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Akron training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Khetag Khosonov 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Akron
Maxim Boldyrev 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Slobodan Tedić rescues a point for Akron
It needed Slobodan Tedić to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Lokomotiv Moscow, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The formation has left Ben Yagan behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Akron will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Evgeny Putin: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
In brief
- The dugout Dmitry Pestryakov gets it from the manager
- Looking ahead Alexandr Kutitskiy faces his old club
- The dugout Khetag Khosonov left out for tactical reasons at Akron