Timur Chetoev

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Kuban Holding
12 Nov 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Timur Chetoev

6 Edition

The Alania Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Artem Zakirov asks to leave Alania

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Alan Bagaev yet — 9.51

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.51 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings

Taras Gagloev, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65

A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

The Murom deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Sarmat Khubezhov reports back to Alania with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Market

Alania sell Timur Chetoev for $44.0K

Timur Chetoev has left for Kuban Holding in a $44.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Boardroom

794% of the income goes out in wages at Alania

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

The terraces

Alania supporters have found a favourite in David Byazrov

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. David Byazrov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Alania find a way past Tyumen

Tyumen made Alania work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Dato Chertkoev was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.43. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Kuban Holding Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Nikita Tagiev 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 Kuban Holding can pretend not to have heard.

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 5 of the 21 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Market

Eyes on Ivan Sergienko again

The phone has started ringing about Ivan Sergienko again, and this time the name on the line is Metallurg. Kuban Holding are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market

Kuban Holding sign Timur Chetoev for $44.0K

The paperwork is done: Timur Chetoev joins from Alania in a deal worth $44.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Boardroom

Wages eat 463% of everything Kuban Holding 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.

Match

Angusht take the points off Kuban Holding

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words at Kuban Holding training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maxim Smolnikov 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.

Squad

Maxim Belkovskiy is the division's best young player this month

At 21 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Kuban Holding will try very hard not to make too much of it.

Squad

No hiding place for Carlos Barba

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

In brief

5 Edition

The Alania Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Alan Bagaev, 35, rolls back the years — 8.57

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.57 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Timur Chetoev asks to leave Alania

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match

The wait goes on for Alania

5 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.

Market

Alania say no — this time

The offer from Legion for David Kokoev was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Alania

Alan Bagaev 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.

Market

Business is business: Inal Dudaev goes

Khimik paid $48.0K and Alania took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Business is business: Alexandr Makiev goes

Dinamo Kirov paid $8.0K and Alania took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

No hiding place for Anzor Amiraliev

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

Squad

David Byazrov lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

In brief

2 Edition

The Alania Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Druzhba come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Alania did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Ruslan Bagaev 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 Alania can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Alania

Alan Bagaev 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.

Match

Dato Chertkoev’s goal not enough for Alania

Dato Chertkoev scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Dinamo Moscow 2, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Dato Chertkoev

Marked 8.39 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Soslan Kachmazov 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.

Market

Still no ink between Alania and Alan Bagaev

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Alania, another week without a signature from Alan Bagaev.

Player ratings

Dzambolat Tsallagov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Dato Chertkoev is off the mark for Alania

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief