The Legion Courier
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Abusupjan Magomedov
27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Legion lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Legion
Sergey Oliynyk 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Legion training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marek Jaroň 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Anton Kolobov is not the player he was
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Islam Magomedov faces his old club
Dinamo Makhachkala 2 next, and one man in the Legion dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Ruslan Bagaev 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 Ruslan Bagaev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Dinamo Makhachkala 2
- The dugout The manager comes out for Ilja Glebov