Maxim Syschenko

Central Defender - Orenburg
2 May 2028
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The Orenburg Courier

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Alexis Cantero 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 Orenburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch

Stanislav Poroikov wants to come home

“I did not go to Chelyabinsk to sit and watch. I want to come back to Orenburg and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.

Squad

No hiding place for Irakli Kvekveskiri

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Irakli Kvekveskiri, and the manager let it.

Loan watch

Ivan Ignatjev keeps scoring at Arsenal Tula

9 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Squad

Danila Vedernikov 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 Danila Vedernikov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Danila Vedernikov talk will not go away

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

In brief

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The Chernomorets Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Kirill Suslov 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 Chernomorets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Wages eat 501% of everything Chernomorets earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

Chernomorets count the cost of losing Timur Alikberov

56 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Mikhail Shtepa 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.

Player ratings

Emerson Catarina runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Arseny Filev in the eights

A performance of 8.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief