The Fakel Courier
Match31 Oct 2026
Belajdi Pusi leads the rout of Arsenal Tula
4‑1, and Belajdi Pusi took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Fakel tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Both of them Merabi Uridia's — 9.58
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.58, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A brace, and Belajdi Pusi takes the afternoon — 9.38
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Belajdi Pusi provided it, and the 9.38 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Axel Gnapi Dable says Fakel went back on their word
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A move Ábris Sámson would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ábris Sámson is living that version at Fakel, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Fakel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Darko Todorović 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 155% of everything Fakel 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Ravil Netfullin
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ravil Netfullin, and the manager let it.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
$1.2M on the table at Fakel
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
In brief
- Market Fakel sign Ábris Sámson, one for the future
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Squad Ábris Sámson is a square peg at Fakel