Artem Yashkov

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Marked for Artem Yashkov

160 Edition

The Baltika 2 Gazette

20 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market20 Aug 2029

Denis Makarov asks to leave Baltika 2

“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.

Match18 Aug 2029

The wait goes on for Baltika 2

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.

Squad20 Aug 2029

Pavel Popov 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 Baltika 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings20 Aug 2029

Arseny Popushoy runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market20 Aug 2029

Dinamo Makhachkala are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Baltika 2 will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad20 Aug 2029

No hiding place for Lucas

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

In brief

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157 Edition

The Baltika 2 Gazette

30 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad30 Jul 2029

Yuriy Kovalev breaks a bone — 32 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market30 Jul 2029

Only the photograph left for Ilja Petrov

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ilja Petrov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Baltika 2 the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market30 Jul 2029

Ivan Salikhov 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 The request is on a desk at Baltika 2, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad30 Jul 2029

Tempers go at Baltika 2

Artem Isik 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.

Match28 Jul 2029

Zenit 2 take the points off Baltika 2

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

Squad30 Jul 2029

A late step up for Kirill Nikolaev

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Squad30 Jul 2029

Pavel Popov 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 ratings30 Jul 2029

Nobody could get near Arseny Popushoy

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings30 Jul 2029

Vladislav Pospelov could not find anything

5.44. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

In brief

114 Edition

The Baltika 2 Gazette

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings2 Oct 2028

A defender's afternoon for Dmitry Begun

Defensive actions: 29. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Yegor Lyubakov keeps Baltika 2 in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings2 Oct 2028

Nobody could get near Kirill Nikishin

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Artem Yashkov: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Baltika 2 have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match30 Sep 2028

3 matches without a goal for Baltika 2

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Words at Baltika 2 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Isik 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.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Tempers go at Baltika 2

Dmitry Begun 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.

Player ratings2 Oct 2028

Serxho Vogli shuts the door

Defensive actions: 15, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Match30 Sep 2028

Baltika 2 draw a blank against Dinamo Vologda

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Dinamo Vologda defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

63 Edition

The Baltika 2 Gazette

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad11 Oct 2027

Dmitry Nikitin is the real thing at 20

A season average of 7.18 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Baltika 2 know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Player ratings11 Oct 2027

A masterclass from Artem Yashkov

Marked 9.12 — 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.

The terraces11 Oct 2027

The crowd has taken to Artem Yashkov

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Artem Isik 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.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Pavel Gorbachev falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Igor Vaisbein 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 Baltika 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief