Marked for Rostislav Tyschenko
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
Amet Dugu puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Sevastopol, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ilja Gruznov 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Rustem Klimanov is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vsevolod Zorin has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Ilja Gruznov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Sevastopol 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
Market12 Oct 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Rostislav Tyschenko has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Sevastopol.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Angusht in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Ilja Gruznov talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Sevastopol know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
2 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Match30 Sep 2026
Orenburg are out and Sevastopol go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad5 Oct 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.
The dugout5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ilja Gruznov 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Sevastopol do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
He is 23 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Ilja Gruznov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sevastopol.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artem Stepanovich, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Sevastopol asked and Volna said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Gleb Mishin 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout7 Sep 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 dugout7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Sevastopol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Popov 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 dugout7 Sep 2026
Amet Dugu 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Ilja Gruznov has moved up it.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sevastopol can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gleb Mishin commits to Sevastopol for another 3 years.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Sevastopol asked and Rubin Yalta said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Amet Dugu 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
A stepping stone, not a home, for Artem Demagin
He is doing his job and he is not settling. Sevastopol were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
Match29 Aug 2026
Sevastopol rescue it on 89 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 89. Rubin Yalta had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Sevastopol
12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Market31 Aug 2026
He is 19, and nobody at Sevastopol signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Redvan Osmanov commits to Sevastopol for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 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 Sevastopol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Sevastopol
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yury Maximov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Amet Dugu
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Amet Dugu, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sevastopol 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Spartak Nalchik leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Ivan Korsakov was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Sevastopol dressing room was either.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“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.