The Baltika Sentinel
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Dinamo Zagreb tell Baltika: Kirill Kravtsov is not for sale
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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 6 signed and 9 gone
That is the business done at Baltika until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Baltika
Tenton Yenne and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Baltika training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Evgeny Latyshonok 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Tenton Yenne’s goal not enough for Baltika
Tenton Yenne scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Krasnodar, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Chinonso Offor
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Chinonso Offor, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Evgeny Latyshonok is still paying for one afternoon at Baltika
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Evgeny Latyshonok lets one through his hands
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Valery Kashirin answers for it
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
In brief
- Squad “I want to play”: Aymane Mourid speaks
- The dugout Arseny Popushoy dropped after a run of poor form
- Looking ahead A reunion for Ruslan Slavin