Ilja Bugaev

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The Dinamo Stavropol Post

25 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Vadim Tskhadiashvili has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Tempers go at Dinamo Stavropol

Denis Yakuba 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Jadelson Azul

“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.

Match

Druzhba take the points off Dinamo Stavropol

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Valentin Solodarenko left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Valentin Solodarenko will call it something else in private.

Player ratings

Ivan Kudryashov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

The Rustam Khalnazarov question follows Dinamo Stavropol around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Rustam Khalnazarov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Player ratings

Off the pace: Nikolay Andriyanov

A mark of 5.66 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

Squad

Denis Yakuba has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Denis Yakuba keeps the shirt for now, at Dinamo Stavropol's convenience rather than his own.

In brief

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The Chaika Courier

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Artem Krutovskikh keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Chaika may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Only the photograph left for Singnkhi Mpedi

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Singnkhi Mpedi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Chaika the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Chaika

Stanislav Biblyk 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.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Daniil Stolyarov

Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad

Nikolay Ischenko 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.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Artem Krutovskikh

Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Oleksandr Rosputko

A mark of 7.68, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

Alexandr Pomalyuk 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 Chaika, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vitaly Dunay (Karpenko)

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

59 Edition

The Chaika Courier

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Chaika's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Chaika has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Thanasis Triantafyllou 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 Chaika, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Ruslan Chobanov shuts the door

Defensive actions: 25, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

Tempers go at Chaika

Stanislav Biblyk 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Stanislav Biblyk

“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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Lucas Pazos

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Chaika draw a blank against Fakel

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

Squad

Nikita Posmashny asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

The Ruslan Chobanov story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ruslan Chobanov signs something — a contract at Chaika or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief