The Rodina 2 Chronicle
Squad21 Jun 2027
Astemir Gordyushenko damages knee ligaments — 32 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 32 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
Not going: Astemir Gordyushenko stays at Rodina 2
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Rodina M had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market21 Jun 2027
Arseny Khorin has said yes to Cherepovets
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Rodina 2 have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market21 Jun 2027
Baltika join the queue for Ivan Timoshenko
Add another name to the list: Baltika have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ivan Timoshenko. The answer from Rodina 2 has not changed — yet.
Squad21 Jun 2027
The step up is real for Arseny Khorin
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Ivan Timoshenko 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 Rodina 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Neto is a square peg at Rodina 2
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Market21 Jun 2027
Rodina 2 put Artem Maximenko up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Artem Maximenko may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Match21 Jun 2027
Continental football is in reach for Rodina 2
14 points from position 5. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
In brief
- The dugout Ilja Svinov knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Alexandr Stenyakin