Denis Klyuev

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
27 Mar 2033
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342 Edition

The Volga Sentinel

14 Feb 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings14 Feb 2033

Vladislav Yakovlev scores twice — 8.83

Two goals and a mark of 8.83 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market14 Feb 2033

Konstantin Lukinykh 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 The request is on a desk at Volga, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market14 Feb 2033

Only the photograph left for Denis Klyuev

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Denis Klyuev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volga the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match12 Feb 2033

No end in sight to Volga's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Volga has to find a result from somewhere.

Market14 Feb 2033

The Tver deal is off

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

Squad14 Feb 2033

Words exchanged at Volga

Vladislav Yakovlev 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.

Squad14 Feb 2033

Home is on Ayabulela Konqobe's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Volga are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad14 Feb 2033

Artur Murza 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.

Transfer targets14 Feb 2033

Akron tell Volga: Victor Nafikov is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

In brief

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340 Edition

The Volga Sentinel

31 Jan 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad31 Jan 2033

9 saves: Aleksandr Dovgal' was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market31 Jan 2033

Denis Klyuev agrees terms with Kosmos

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Volga people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market31 Jan 2033

Pyotr Fedoseev asks to leave Volga

“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.

Transfer targets31 Jan 2033

Eldar Guseinov due for a Volga medical

Everything agreed with Krasnodar, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad31 Jan 2033

Vladislav Yakovlev 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 Volga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 Jan 2033

Words at Volga training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artur Murza 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.

Match29 Jan 2033

A bad afternoon for Volga against Spartak Kostroma

1‑3 to Spartak Kostroma, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Transfer targets31 Jan 2033

Volga rebuffed over Timofey Mitrov

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Akron have kept their man, and Volga go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Boardroom31 Jan 2033

The Volga debt reaches $19.9M

Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.

In brief

301 Edition

The Volga Sentinel

3 May 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom3 May 2032

Volga put Interim Coach on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

The dugout3 May 2032

Denis Klyuev says Volga went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad3 May 2032

Alexandr Saplinov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexandr Saplinov and Volga agree another 2 years.

Squad3 May 2032

Vladislav Yakovlev 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 Volga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 May 2032

Artur Murza 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.

Boardroom3 May 2032

$875.2K from the owner keeps Volga afloat

The gap in the accounts was filled from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be grateful and to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings arrive together.

Boardroom3 May 2032

The borrowing at Volga reaches $19.7M

Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $19.7M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.

Market3 May 2032

Still no ink between Volga and Abdurakhman Abdulaev

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

Squad3 May 2032

Ahmed Azaouagh is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Ahmed Azaouagh has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

In brief