The Sokol Post
Market14 Jun 2027
Andrey Anisimov asks to leave Sokol
“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.
Market14 Jun 2027
Amir Kahrimanović has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sokol they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A move Fedor Skok would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Fedor Skok is living that version at Sokol, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Home is on Michał Bierzało's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Sokol are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Sokol
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikita Pechenkin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Nikolay Andriyanov 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 Sokol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Mikhail Philippov
“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.
Boardroom14 Jun 2027
Wages swallow 98% of the Sokol income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
Market14 Jun 2027
Sokol buy the years ahead of Roko Matić
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
In brief
- Market Sokol sign David Terlević, one for the future
- The dugout When it matters, Nikita Gloidman plays
- The dugout The manager makes Nikolay Andriyanov a promise