Marked for Vadim Govor
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Uneasy
Match19 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Strogino's wait for a win
21 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Strogino has to find a result from somewhere.
Market21 Dec 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 Strogino can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Dec 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 Strogino this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Dec 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Strogino did not have in the autumn.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Alexey Muldarov 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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Match24 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Strogino's wait for a win
13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Strogino has to find a result from somewhere.
Market26 Oct 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
5 matches without a goal for Strogino
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad26 Oct 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 Strogino this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
11 new faces, and Strogino 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.
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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Strogino
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Strogino are no longer polite ones.
Match5 Oct 2026
Strogino sink to position 15
4 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ilja Antsiferov 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Strogino against Kvant
0‑1 to Kvant, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vadim Govor commits to Strogino for another 3 years.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 92% of everything Strogino earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Sergey Guzyuk named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Sergey Guzyuk is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Uneasy
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Strogino's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Strogino has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Karol Turek 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ilja Antsiferov 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Strogino?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Ryazan? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Amur Balkizov
84 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sibir lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Sibir
Alexandr Nosov 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
Sibir get the job done against Alania
A 1‑0 win over Alania, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
7.82, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Sibir had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Dmitry Redkovich 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market21 Sep 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Vadim Govor leaves Sibir the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Market21 Sep 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Artem Popkov leaves Sibir the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
Amur Balkizov damages knee ligaments — 92 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 92 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market14 Sep 2026
Business is business: Alexey Karmin goes
Kvant paid $7.0K and Sibir took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Match12 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Sibir against Mashuk
0‑1 to Mashuk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Alexandr Yeliseev 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Sibir
Dmitry Redkovich 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.