Marked for Kirill Mogel
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market7 Sep 2026
Kirill Mogel 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 Dinamo Barnaul can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer from Volgar for Kirill Mogel 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Dinamo Barnaul are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
908% of the income goes out in wages at Dinamo Barnaul
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Dmitry Bakay 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 Barnaul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Sep 2026
Khimik left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivan Zhitnikov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Anton Petukhov asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Match29 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Adam Khan 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 Barnaul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Victor Khugaev
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
4.53 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
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Crisis
Market17 Aug 2026
Ilja Bychkov 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 Dinamo Barnaul can pretend not to have heard.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Zenit Penza for Ilja Bychkov 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ivan Zhitnikov 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Akron 2, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ilja Bychkov
“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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
At 18 years old, Savely Uljanov became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Market17 Aug 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Artem Yarkin’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
5.49 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
“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 Dinamo Barnaul, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market10 Aug 2026
Textilschik come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Dinamo Barnaul did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ivan Zhitnikov 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The shop window has Ilja Bychkov in it
Dinamo Barnaul have let the market know Ilja Bychkov can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Ivan Zhitnikov keeps the shirt for now, at Dinamo Barnaul's convenience rather than his own.
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Crisis
Market3 Aug 2026
Vasily Ilik 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 Dinamo Barnaul can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 25 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ivan Zhitnikov commits to Dinamo Barnaul for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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 Barnaul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Amkar, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ivan Zhitnikov
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Mikhail Osipov’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
Artem Sablin is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Dinamo Barnaul has been clear about where Artem Sablin stands, which is more than many ever get.