Marked for Dmitry Gusarov
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match23 Oct 2027
No end in sight to Kolomna's wait for a win
18 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kolomna has to find a result from somewhere.
Match23 Oct 2027
5 matches without a goal for Kolomna
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Abu-Muslim Khamkhoev 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Danil Kapustyanskiy 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.
Match23 Oct 2027
A bad afternoon for Kolomna against Irkutsk
0‑1 to Irkutsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Yaroslav Belikov left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Yegor Sedov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom26 Apr 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Kolomna
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Kolomna is running low.
Market26 Apr 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kolomna can pretend not to have heard.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Kolomna
Mikhail Kanaev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom26 Apr 2027
86% of the income goes out in wages at Kolomna
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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Kolomna
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yegor Sedov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmitry Gusarov, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match21 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Kolomna's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kolomna has to find a result from somewhere.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Kolomna
Mikhail Kanaev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Kolomna
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yegor Sedov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match21 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Yaroslav Belikov after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Timur Chetoev gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Timur Chetoev is on it.
Market23 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Kolomna know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.