Denis Potashov

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Nosta
25 Feb 2029
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The Nosta Chronicle

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match12 Feb 2029

Nosta are in real trouble now

Position 11, 9 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad12 Feb 2029

A fracture rules Ivan Gavrilov out for 46 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nosta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market12 Feb 2029

Dmitriy Mikheev puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nosta, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market12 Feb 2029

Only the photograph left for Rodrigo Vicente

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rodrigo Vicente will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Nosta the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad12 Feb 2029

Tempers go at Nosta

Anatoly Anisimov 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.

Boardroom12 Feb 2029

Nosta are $5.3M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

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The Nosta Chronicle

27 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market27 Nov 2028

Danila Boiko 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 Nosta can pretend not to have heard.

Market27 Nov 2028

Danila Boiko has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nosta they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Player ratings27 Nov 2028

Nobody could get near Ilnur Gabdullin

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad27 Nov 2028

Anatoly Anisimov 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 Nosta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom27 Nov 2028

Wages eat 173% of everything Nosta 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.

Squad27 Nov 2028

Kirill Sechkin 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.

Squad27 Nov 2028

Roman Kopylov knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Nosta, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad27 Nov 2028

Serafim Grozovskiy has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Nosta 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.

Match25 Nov 2028

Nosta draw a blank against Krylya Sovetov 2

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Krylya Sovetov 2 defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief