Dmitry Medvedev

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Nosta
9 Jul 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Dmitry Medvedev

100 Edition

The Nosta Chronicle

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Nosta boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Leo Granlund asks to leave Nosta

“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.

Transfer targets

Vladimir Tsapurin will not be coming to Nosta

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at SKA Khabarovsk is saying, and nobody at Nosta is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Tempers go at Nosta

Stanislav Irshev 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ilja Vostrikov

Nosta asked and Spartak Tambov said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A row about effort at Nosta

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dawid Linca was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Artem Yapryntsev is in the works

Nosta have made the call to Dinamo Vladivostok. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout

Vadim Bogdanov knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vadim Bogdanov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Dmitry Medvedev gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

Back issues
98 Edition

The Nosta Chronicle

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Ruslan Karavalliev asks to leave Nosta

“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.

Squad

Rodion Konstantinov 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.

Squad

Dawid Linca 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.

Boardroom

179% of the income goes out in wages at Nosta

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Boardroom

Nosta cannot sign anybody

The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.

The dugout

Dmitry Chamzhaev knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dmitry Chamzhaev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Amirkhan Temukov linked with a move away

The name of Amirkhan Temukov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Nosta say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

Still no signature from Vadim Bogdanov

6 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Nosta could get for him.

Squad

Liam Micallef still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Nosta would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

In brief