Marked for David Gigolaev
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Jan 2037
A knee injury of the worst kind for David Gigolaev
65 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Leningradets lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Jan 2037
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 82 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match12 Jan 2037
11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
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From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Jan 2037
A knee injury of the worst kind for David Gigolaev
72 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Leningradets lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad5 Jan 2037
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 89 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market5 Jan 2037
Mark Antonov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Leningradets they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad29 Dec 2036
A knee injury of the worst kind for David Gigolaev
79 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Leningradets lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad29 Dec 2036
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 96 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market29 Dec 2036
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad22 Dec 2036
A knee injury of the worst kind for David Gigolaev
86 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Leningradets lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad22 Dec 2036
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Leningradets may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad22 Dec 2036
Yegor Pozdnyakov 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad15 Dec 2036
A knee injury of the worst kind for David Gigolaev
93 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Leningradets lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match15 Dec 2036
Position 10, 11 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Boardroom15 Dec 2036
262% of the income goes out in wages at Leningradets
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad8 Dec 2036
A knee injury of the worst kind for David Gigolaev
100 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Leningradets lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market8 Dec 2036
Mark Antonov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Leningradets they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad8 Dec 2036
Words at Leningradets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Vyaznikov 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.