Marked for Mikhail Ryadno
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Upbeat
Squad1 Sep 2036
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kirill Davidenko
53 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo Makhachkala lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad1 Sep 2036
348 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Market1 Sep 2036
Gavriil Petrov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Makhachkala they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad1 Sep 2036
Mohammad Javad Hosseinnejad 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.
Transfer targets1 Sep 2036
Dinamo Makhachkala asked and Ural said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad1 Sep 2036
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.
Market1 Sep 2036
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Player ratings1 Sep 2036
A mark of 7.66, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad18 Aug 2036
67 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dinamo Makhachkala lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match16 Aug 2036
A 0‑6 beating by CSKA Moscow was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market18 Aug 2036
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad18 Aug 2036
Will Sutton breaks a bone — 21 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets18 Aug 2036
Fee done, terms next for Viktor Zimin
Dinamo Makhachkala and Krasnodar have settled on $150.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Squad18 Aug 2036
Mohammad Javad Hosseinnejad and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match16 Aug 2036
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Dinamo Makhachkala and CSKA Moscow, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad18 Aug 2036
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Dinamo Makhachkala know it.
Transfer targets18 Aug 2036
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.
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Uneasy
Market24 Mar 2036
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Makhachkala is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad24 Mar 2036
Mohammad Javad Hosseinnejad 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.
Squad24 Mar 2036
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.
Squad24 Mar 2036
Tomás Sives wants to finish where he started
Every long career reaches the week the player starts thinking about the last one. He would like it to be at the club that first put him on a pitch, and Dinamo Makhachkala now know that too.
The dugout24 Mar 2036
“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.
The dugout24 Mar 2036
Nobody at Dinamo Makhachkala will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market24 Mar 2036
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout24 Mar 2036
Will Sutton knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dinamo Makhachkala, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market4 Feb 2036
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Arsenal Tula waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Dinamo Makhachkala is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match2 Feb 2036
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dinamo Makhachkala has to find a result from somewhere.
Market4 Feb 2036
Gadji Budunov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Makhachkala they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad4 Feb 2036
Mohammad Javad Hosseinnejad 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.
Transfer targets4 Feb 2036
Dinamo Makhachkala offered $270.0K; Ufa said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets4 Feb 2036
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.
Squad4 Feb 2036
Words at Dinamo Makhachkala training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gadjimagomed Khalilulaev 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.
The dugout4 Feb 2036
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad4 Feb 2036
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aleksi Piispa and Dinamo Makhachkala agree another 3 years.
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Crisis
Player ratings7 Jan 2036
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout7 Jan 2036
“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.
Squad7 Jan 2036
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Mikhail Ryadno, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market7 Jan 2036
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Makhachkala is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match5 Jan 2036
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Dinamo Makhachkala are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom7 Jan 2036
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad7 Jan 2036
Mohammad Javad Hosseinnejad 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.
Match5 Jan 2036
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout7 Jan 2036
“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.
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Crisis
Market24 Dec 2035
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Makhachkala is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad24 Dec 2035
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Makhachkala this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Dec 2035
Words at Dinamo Makhachkala training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gadjimagomed Khalilulaev 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.
Match22 Dec 2035
CSKA Moscow left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout24 Dec 2035
The manager makes an example of Vadim Gapeev
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout24 Dec 2035
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Interim Coach left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad24 Dec 2035
No place for Ryan Porteous in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Dinamo Makhachkala are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout24 Dec 2035
The manager has not finished forgetting Artur Yangaev's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Looking ahead24 Dec 2035
Baltika next, and one man in the Dinamo Makhachkala dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Steady
Squad5 Nov 2035
Mohammad Javad Hosseinnejad 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.
The terraces5 Nov 2035
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Toby Vanaken 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.
The dugout5 Nov 2035
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matvey Ivanov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings5 Nov 2035
Ninety minutes of Toby Vanaken at his very best
Marked 8.13. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Dinamo Makhachkala.
Market5 Nov 2035
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad5 Nov 2035
Words at Dinamo Makhachkala training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Toby Vanaken 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.
Squad5 Nov 2035
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Artur Yangaev 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.
Player ratings5 Nov 2035
Marked 7.28. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Uneasy
Market17 Sep 2035
“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.
Squad17 Sep 2035
A move Yegor Vedernikov would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Yegor Vedernikov is living that version at Dinamo Makhachkala, and it tends to show in the first month.
Match15 Sep 2035
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dinamo Makhachkala has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad17 Sep 2035
Mohammad Javad Hosseinnejad 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.
Market17 Sep 2035
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Dinamo Makhachkala will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Match15 Sep 2035
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad17 Sep 2035
Tomás Sives 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.
The dugout17 Sep 2035
“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.
Squad17 Sep 2035
Ola Kalu wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Dinamo Makhachkala can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jun 2035
Vladislav Kostin damages knee ligaments — 20 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom4 Jun 2035
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Dinamo Makhachkala can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom4 Jun 2035
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Squad4 Jun 2035
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Dinamo Makhachkala have had the benefit of it.
Market4 Jun 2035
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Goryainov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Makhachkala the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad4 Jun 2035
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Makhachkala this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market4 Jun 2035
33 games and 0 goals away from here, and a man the manager did not have last summer. The loan did what loans are supposed to do and almost never do.
The dugout4 Jun 2035
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Mar 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Emmanuele Salines
58 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo Makhachkala lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Mar 2035
20 days out for Mikhail Ryadno after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Dinamo Makhachkala will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market12 Mar 2035
Erik Kalinets has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Makhachkala they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad12 Mar 2035
Vladimir Ignatenko 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.
Squad12 Mar 2035
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 targets12 Mar 2035
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Moscow have kept their man, and Dinamo Makhachkala go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market12 Mar 2035
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vlad Dzyuba is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Mar 2035
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Timur Putin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Mar 2035
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fedot Ignatov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Mar 2035
65 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dinamo Makhachkala lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad5 Mar 2035
27 days out for Mikhail Ryadno after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Dinamo Makhachkala will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Boardroom5 Mar 2035
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Dinamo Makhachkala can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad5 Mar 2035
Dealt with internally, which is the phrase a club uses when it would rather nobody asked twice. He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday.
Squad5 Mar 2035
353 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Transfer targets5 Mar 2035
Dinamo Makhachkala asked and Villarreal said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout5 Mar 2035
The manager makes an example of Rasul Guseinov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market5 Mar 2035
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout5 Mar 2035
When it matters, Julián Vila plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Crisis
Squad26 Feb 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Emmanuele Salines
72 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo Makhachkala lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad26 Feb 2035
A fracture rules Mikhail Ryadno out for 34 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dinamo Makhachkala will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom26 Feb 2035
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Dinamo Makhachkala is running low.
Match26 Feb 2035
Position 11 on 29 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.
The dugout26 Feb 2035
“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.
Boardroom26 Feb 2035
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 2 arrived, 11 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets26 Feb 2035
The deal with Orenburg is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad26 Feb 2035
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Makhachkala this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Feb 2035
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Jan 2035
114 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dinamo Makhachkala lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad15 Jan 2035
69 days out for Rodion Nesterov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Dinamo Makhachkala will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match13 Jan 2035
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.
Market15 Jan 2035
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Makhachkala is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom15 Jan 2035
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad15 Jan 2035
Vadim Gapeev 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 Dinamo Makhachkala this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Jan 2035
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.
The dugout15 Jan 2035
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrey Bondar', and the manager let it.
Player ratings15 Jan 2035
7.41, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Dinamo Makhachkala had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Dec 2034
The knee: Tomás Sives out for 57 days
57 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dinamo Makhachkala lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad25 Dec 2034
A fracture rules Rodion Nesterov out for 90 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dinamo Makhachkala will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market25 Dec 2034
Matvey Ivanov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Makhachkala they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad25 Dec 2034
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Makhachkala this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Dec 2034
Gavriil Petrov arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Gavriil Petrov has, at Dinamo Makhachkala, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Boardroom25 Dec 2034
119% of the income goes out in wages at Dinamo Makhachkala
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 dugout25 Dec 2034
Andrey Bondar' dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Loan watch25 Dec 2034
9 shut-outs in 12 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Michael Matthews has been having a lot of them.
The dugout25 Dec 2034
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artem Luttsev, and the manager let it.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Nikita Kalmõkov knocks on the manager's door
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Player ratings
A defender's afternoon for Mikhail Ryadno