The SKA Khabarovsk Gazette
Market15 May 2028
Only the photograph left for Demjan Iljev
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Demjan Iljev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around SKA Khabarovsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad15 May 2028
Astemir Gordyushenko in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SKA Khabarovsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom15 May 2028
Belts tighten at SKA Khabarovsk
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
Loan watch15 May 2028
Danil Ladokha’s loan is measured in nothing happening
15 clean sheets from 23 appearances at FC Bihor Oradea. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.
Squad15 May 2028
Words at SKA Khabarovsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Mukhin 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 dugout15 May 2028
The manager has not finished forgetting Kirill Yershov's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Market15 May 2028
Jacobo Alcalde linked with a move away
The name of Jacobo Alcalde keeps appearing in other people's back pages. SKA Khabarovsk say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout15 May 2028
Sondre Herfindal has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at SKA Khabarovsk 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.
Squad15 May 2028
A season on the outside for Mateusz Marzec
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at SKA Khabarovsk has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Arshak Koryan
- Market Dmitry Barkov runs his contract down
- Squad Questions about Will Rutter on the training pitch