The Ufa Sentinel
Squad16 Aug 2027
33 days out for Alan Khabalov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ufa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market16 Aug 2027
Ufa say no — this time
The offer from Radnik Surdulica for Wim Vanmarsenille was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market16 Aug 2027
Francis Hurl has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ufa they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Dmitry Kiselev gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Dmitry Kiselev has just signed for Ufa, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Ufa
Denis Kutin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
No hiding place for Migran Ageyan
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Migran Ageyan, and the manager let it.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Georgy Gongadze 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.
Match14 Aug 2027
Late, late show earns Ufa a point
Minute 86, against Baltika, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Market16 Aug 2027
No place for Timofey Shipunov in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Timofey Shipunov has his answer from Ufa; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- Match Honours even between Ufa and Baltika
- The dugout Nil Zinchenko: “We have to be better”
- Market Ufa put Wim Vanmarsenille up for sale