The Chaika Courier
The dugout19 Jun 2028
Ruslan Kazakov: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Chaika have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market19 Jun 2028
David Gagua hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Chaika can pretend not to have heard.
Squad19 Jun 2028
At 20, Arseny Filev is already the best thing here
An average of 7.07 in a first team he is several years too young for. Chaika have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2028
Nikolay Prisyazhnenko due for a Chaika medical
Everything agreed with Volga, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Stanislav Biblyk 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 Chaika this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Jun 2028
AJ Doyle gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. AJ Doyle has just signed for Chaika, and for once the answer mattered.
Boardroom19 Jun 2028
Chaika agree a free transfer for Evgeny Dubinin
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2028
Chaika rebuffed over Gleb Popolitov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. CSKA Moscow have kept their man, and Chaika go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market19 Jun 2028
Eyes on Boycho Velichkov again
The phone has started ringing about Boycho Velichkov again, and this time the name on the line is Naftan. Chaika are listening politely and promising nothing.
In brief
- The dugout Vitaly Dunay (Karpenko) gets it from the manager
- Transfer targets Chaika try to borrow Nikolay Barovskiy
- Market Chaika sign AJ Doyle, one for the future