Yegor Plotnikov

Goalkeeper - Mashuk
2 Dec 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Yegor Plotnikov

17 Edition

The Mashuk Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Mashuk

Astemir Abazov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Zikrula Magomedov 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Rasul Gystarov

“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 dugout

Mashuk keep their word to Yegor Saigushev

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Market

The Ivan Selemenev talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mashuk know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

Kirill Pomeshkin has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Kirill Pomeshkin has written the date down.

The dugout

Sevada Torosyan 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 Sevada Torosyan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Another notebook out for Tamaz Topuria

Akhmat Grozny watched Tamaz Topuria again at the weekend, and this time they did not bother hiding it. Clubs only stop hiding when they want the price to start moving.

Squad

Yegor Plotnikov is not doing himself any favours

A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Mashuk Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

7 saves: Oleg Suvorov was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Andrey Domotsev at 21 — 7.96

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Andrey Domotsev did not need any: 7.96, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

A falling-out at Mashuk

Astemir Abazov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Mashuk rescue it on 93 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 93. Volgar had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Rustam Machilov

“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.

Match

Mashuk at the halfway mark

Half the programme played, position 6, 12 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.

Squad

8 new faces, and Mashuk 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.

Match

Honours even between Mashuk and Volgar

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Grigory Kulikov: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 2‑2 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief