The Arsenal Dzerzhinsk Chronicle
Market31 Aug 2026
Ivan Tolkachev 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 Dzerzhinsk can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Yuriy Lovets
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yuriy Lovets will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Arsenal Dzerzhinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Pavel Kotlyarov
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Arsenal Dzerzhinsk against Isloch
0‑1 to Isloch, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Pavel Kotlyarov 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Daniel Volskiy 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 Arsenal Dzerzhinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Squad Arsenal Dzerzhinsk pick somebody else ahead of Sergey Sazonchik
- Squad The plan did not have a place for Ivan Tolkachev
- Player ratings Brian Iloski ran the game