Marked for Alexandr Khvataev
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Steady
Market8 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ivan Solovjov commits to Dinamo Bryansk for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Ivan Solovjov 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Vladislav Drogunov 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.
Loan watch8 Mar 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Dinamo Bryansk, and 1 appearances in 25 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Oleg Shalaev 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.
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Steady
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match6 Feb 2027
3 matches without a goal for Dinamo Bryansk
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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Dinamo Bryansk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amirali Khorrami 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.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
“I watch every Dinamo Bryansk game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Irtysh runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.26 on the card, and the Dinamo Bryansk support went home talking about one name.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Ivan Maklakov
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Ivan Maklakov has come out of that comparison in the side, and Dinamo Bryansk have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Oleg Shalaev
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Artem Medvedev watches a signing take the shirt he was promised
At 24 the pathway was supposed to be open. Instead Dinamo Bryansk went to the market, and a local readership is asking the question the academy staff are too diplomatic to ask out loud.
Match6 Feb 2027
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Rodina M? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Triumph
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Ivan Solovjov, 33, rolls back the years — 8.07
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.07 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match9 Jan 2027
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Dinamo Bryansk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amirali Khorrami 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.
Squad11 Jan 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 Dinamo Bryansk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces11 Jan 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Amir Alizade has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad11 Jan 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.
Loan watch11 Jan 2027
“I watch every Dinamo Bryansk game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Irtysh runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Upbeat
Match14 Nov 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Dinamo Bryansk have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ivan Solovjov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Dinamo Bryansk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amirali Khorrami 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Alexandr Shlenkin. 1‑0 against Spartak Tambov, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.27, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Dinamo Bryansk, and 1 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
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Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
“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 Dinamo Bryansk, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match7 Nov 2026
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad9 Nov 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 Dinamo Bryansk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match7 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Daniil Konoplev. 1‑0 against Znamya Truda, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ivan Rapakov 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.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I watch every Dinamo Bryansk game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Krylya Sovetov runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 7.74. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Crisis
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market21 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ivan Solovjov 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Salyut left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Vladislav Drogunov 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmitry Pikatov, and the manager let 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 Dinamo Bryansk can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 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 Dinamo Bryansk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tomasz Dusik and Dinamo Bryansk agree another 3 years.
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Steady
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Amirali Khorrami 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Vladislav Drogunov 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Dmitry Pikatov
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Timur Akmurzin 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Orel defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.