Marked for Maxim Noskov
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match8 Nov 2027
9 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market8 Nov 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Textilschik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Mateusz Karol 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.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
The owner puts $19.0K into Textilschik
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Andrey Yevdokimov 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.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
5 new faces, and Textilschik are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Crisis
The terraces1 Nov 2027
The mood at Textilschik has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
Pressure builds in the Textilschik boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Match1 Nov 2027
9 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Match30 Oct 2027
7 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match30 Oct 2027
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.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
Mikołaj Molga: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Textilschik have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Mateusz Karol 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Andrey Yevdokimov 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.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
Wages swallow 174% of the Textilschik 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.
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Crisis
Match23 Oct 2027
Beaten 1‑4 by Khimik, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market25 Oct 2027
“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.
Match23 Oct 2027
Textilschik are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 6 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Market25 Oct 2027
Only the photograph left for Mikołaj Molga
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mikołaj Molga will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Textilschik the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match23 Oct 2027
4 matches without a win for Textilschik
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Textilschik are no longer polite ones.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Words at Textilschik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrey Yevdokimov 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 dugout25 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Ilja Vorontsov 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.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
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Uneasy
Match13 Sep 2027
4 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market13 Sep 2027
“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.
Market13 Sep 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Textilschik have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market13 Sep 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Serafim Chekhlov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Textilschik the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom13 Sep 2027
Window shuts: 14 in, 10 out at Textilschik
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 14 arrived, 10 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Boardroom13 Sep 2027
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Serafim Chekhlov has agreed terms with Kolomna for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Andrey Yevdokimov 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jerson Cabral was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Damian Guzik ran the middle of the pitch — 6.86
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 11 combined actions and a mark of 6.86, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
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Uneasy
Match14 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Textilschik's wait for a win
15 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Textilschik has to find a result from somewhere.
Match16 Aug 2027
Every point is an argument now for Textilschik
Position 6 and 3 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Dmitry Usov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Andrey Yevdokimov 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.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Avangard have kept their man, and Textilschik go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
A performance of 8.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad16 Aug 2027
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.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Damian Guzik
“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.
Market16 Aug 2027
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
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Crisis
The terraces12 Jul 2027
Anger at Textilschik spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Andrey Yevdokimov 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 targets12 Jul 2027
Textilschik asked and Spartak Moscow said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words at Textilschik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Usov 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.
Boardroom12 Jul 2027
119% of the income goes out in wages at Textilschik
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 dugout12 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Evgeny Steshin
“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.
Boardroom12 Jul 2027
The manager has a list and the board has a condition attached to it. That is not a crisis — half of football works this way — but it decides which of the two of them gets his way in August.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Radmir Khainetskiy is on it.
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Crisis
Squad31 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Textilschik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 May 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jerson Cabral was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout31 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maxim Noskov, and the manager let it.
The dugout31 May 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alexandr Ryabinkin is on it.
The dugout31 May 2027
Danila Lukinykh 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.
Squad31 May 2027
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Textilschik will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
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Crisis
Boardroom24 May 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Textilschik
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match24 May 2027
Every point is an argument now for Textilschik
Position 10 and 11 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad24 May 2027
Dmitry Usov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom24 May 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Textilschik now.
Squad24 May 2027
Andrey Yevdokimov 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 dugout24 May 2027
“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 May 2027
Maxim Noskov 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 Textilschik, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market24 May 2027
The Dmitry Usov story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Dmitry Usov signs something — a contract at Textilschik or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout24 May 2027
Nobody at Textilschik 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.
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Crisis
Squad12 Apr 2027
Dmitry Usov 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 Apr 2027
Andrey Yevdokimov 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 dugout12 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maxim Noskov, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Victor Demjanov is on it.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Victor Demjanov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market12 Apr 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Alexandr Ryabinkin signs something — a contract at Textilschik or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Crisis
The terraces22 Mar 2027
The mood at Textilschik has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market22 Mar 2027
“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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Dmitry Usov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrey Yevdokimov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
Wages eat 168% of everything Textilschik 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.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Damian Guzik 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.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Roman Yermolin 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Textilschik will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
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
The terraces22 Feb 2027
Supporters organise against the Textilschik board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Market22 Feb 2027
“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 Textilschik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market22 Feb 2027
The deal that would have taken Ilja Klementjev to Cherepovets has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Textilschik with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Everything agreed with Spartak Moscow, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Andrey Yevdokimov 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Textilschik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jerson Cabral 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.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
156% of the income goes out in wages at Textilschik
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 dugout22 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maxim Noskov, and the manager let it.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ilja Klementjev is on it.
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Crisis
Market15 Feb 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Textilschik people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market15 Feb 2027
“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 Textilschik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad15 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Textilschik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Textilschik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Usov 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 dugout15 Feb 2027
“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 dugout15 Feb 2027
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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Maxim Noskov 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Textilschik know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Textilschik would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Crisis
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Textilschik
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match4 Jan 2027
Every point is an argument now for Textilschik
Position 10 and 11 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Textilschik can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Danila Lukinykh: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Textilschik have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Luca Martinazzi is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Andrey Yevdokimov 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jerson Cabral was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Maxim Noskov 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.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Textilschik now.
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Crisis
The terraces28 Dec 2026
Anger at Textilschik spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market28 Dec 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrey Yevdokimov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Ilja Klementjev 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
324% of the income goes out in wages at Textilschik
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 dugout28 Dec 2026
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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Mikołaj Molga
“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 dugout28 Dec 2026
Maxim Noskov 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
The Dmitry Usov story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Dmitry Usov signs something — a contract at Textilschik or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Andrey Yevdokimov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ilja Klementjev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Maxim Noskov
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Textilschik are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Textilschik will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Dinamo Moscow 2 in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Textilschik, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Andrey Yevdokimov 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
3 matches without a goal for Textilschik
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
470% of the income goes out in wages at Textilschik
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Dmitry Usov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match5 Oct 2026
Half the programme played, position 8, 8 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Dmitry Usov slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Dmitry Usov is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Roman Yermolin
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Roman Yermolin has come out of that comparison in the side, and Textilschik have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A defender's afternoon for Maxim Noskov
Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alexandr Ryabinkin is on it.
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Crisis
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Leningradets, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market3 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andrey Yevdokimov and Textilschik agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Evgeny Tatarinov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Textilschik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrey Yevdokimov 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Textilschik dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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 dugout3 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.