Marked for Kirill Mogel
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Dec 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Anton Petukhov 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
A 1‑0 win over Akron 2, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Emil Kamilov 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 ratings7 Dec 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Kirill Mogel
7.71, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Dinamo Barnaul had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Arseny Shubin kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Defensive actions: 11. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Artem Yarkin unhappy with how he is being used
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Artem Yarkin has let it be known that he does not like the way Dinamo Barnaul are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Maxim Radchenko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Ivan Zhitnikov 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 220% of the Dinamo Barnaul income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Emil Kamilov knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Emil Kamilov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market30 Nov 2026
The name of Kirill Mogel keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Dinamo Barnaul say nothing, which says plenty.
Looking ahead30 Nov 2026
Akron 2, position 3, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anton Petukhov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Kirill Mogel
“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.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Amkar next, and one man in the Dinamo Barnaul dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Dmitry Bakay knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dmitry Bakay trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Artem Yarkin story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Artem Yarkin signs something — a contract at Dinamo Barnaul or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Anton Petukhov 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 terraces9 Nov 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match7 Nov 2026
Three points for Dinamo Barnaul, 1‑0 the final word against Rubin 2 in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad9 Nov 2026
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Arseny Shubin on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“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 dugout9 Nov 2026
Maxim Radchenko 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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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
27 days out for Ruslan Leonov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Dinamo Barnaul will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ivan Zhitnikov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anton Petukhov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Artem Yarkin did the work nobody counts — 6.57
9 combined actions and 6.57. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmitry Bakay, and the manager let it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with KDV Tomsk leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Half-satisfied: Arseny Shubin on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Nikita Chaly knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nikita Chaly trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ruslan Leonov breaks a bone — 48 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.75 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Alexandr Reiz is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ivan Zhitnikov 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Anton Petukhov 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 317% of everything Dinamo Barnaul earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Match3 Oct 2026
Volna made Dinamo Barnaul work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Arseny Shubin on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Upbeat
Match26 Sep 2026
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.32, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad28 Sep 2026
55 days out for Ruslan Leonov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Dinamo Barnaul will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Maxim Radchenko pops up at the right end — 7.97
7.97, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ivan Zhitnikov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Kirill Mogel at his very best
Marked 9.17. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Dinamo Barnaul.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
At 23 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.
Transfer targets28 Sep 2026
The clock did what Rubin Yalta would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dmitry Bakay was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
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The dugout
No hiding place for Dmitry Bakay
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Squad
Artem Yarkin named player of the week
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ruslan Leonov breaks a bone — 62 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 62 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Kirill Mogel — 7.78
Marked 7.78. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Kirill Mogel scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Nosta, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rodina have kept their man, and Dinamo Barnaul go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Dinamo Barnaul ran out of time with Tver. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
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 2‑3 Arseny Shubin left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Ruslan Leonov out for 69 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dinamo Barnaul will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 11 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at Dinamo Barnaul until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Dinamo Barnaul had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Rodina, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
$46.0K on the table at Tver. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Match12 Sep 2026
Khimik left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Moscow have kept their man, and Dinamo Barnaul go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Nikita Chaly 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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Dinamo Barnaul will try again when the window opens; Luki-Energiya may not be selling by then.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Dmitry Bakay 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.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Ruslan Leonov out for 83 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dinamo Barnaul will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ivan Zhitnikov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rodina have kept their man, and Dinamo Barnaul go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Dmitry Tsvetkov
“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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Rodina have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.