Timur Kim

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Arsenal Tula 2
12 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Timur Kim

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The Arsenal Tula 2 Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Grigory Panov puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Arsenal Tula 2, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Arsenal Tula 2

Nikita Karmaev 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Arsenal Tula 2

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yaroslav Demchenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A step back for Timur Kim at Arsenal Tula 2

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Squad

Ilja Sokolov makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Market

The shop window has Yegor Sidorov in it

Arsenal Tula 2 have let the market know Yegor Sidorov can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

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The Arsenal Tula 2 Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Chastening afternoon for Arsenal Tula 2

A 1‑4 beating by Spartak Tambov was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Yegor Sidorov

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Grigory Panov 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 Arsenal Tula 2 can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A falling-out at Arsenal Tula 2

Alexey Kolyshev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Artem Gordeev

“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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Arsenal Tula 2 dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Market

Still no ink between Arsenal Tula 2 and Yegor Knyazev

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Arsenal Tula 2, another week without a signature from Yegor Knyazev.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑4 defeat, delivered by Arseny Grigoryev to a room that had heard them before.

Looking ahead

Arsenal Tula 2 take on the side everybody is chasing

Dinamo St Petersburg arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

In brief

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The Arsenal Tula 2 Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Alexey Kolyshev signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexey Kolyshev and Arsenal Tula 2 agree another 4 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Arsenal Tula 2

Alexey Kolyshev 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.

Match

Arsenal Tula 2 come up short against Znamya Truda

Znamya Truda left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Words at Arsenal Tula 2 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yaroslav Demchenko 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.

Market

Still no ink between Arsenal Tula 2 and Alexey Kolyshev

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Arsenal Tula 2, another week without a signature from Alexey Kolyshev.

Squad

17 new faces, and Arsenal Tula 2 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 dugout

Arseny Grigoryev answers for it

“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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Grigory Panov

“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 ratings

Timur Kim runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief