The Rotor 2 Post
Market13 Nov 2028
Denis Gnedoy has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Rotor 2 they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Tempers go at Rotor 2
Nikita Patkovich 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.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Simon Paradiso gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Simon Paradiso has just signed for Rotor 2, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Daniele Portuesi wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Rotor 2 know it.
Match11 Nov 2028
Ryazan take the points off Rotor 2
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Salvatore Fabbricino 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.
The dugout13 Nov 2028
The manager makes an example of Alexandr Stenyakin
“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.
The dugout13 Nov 2028
Evgeni Sidorov: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Market13 Nov 2028
Rotor 2 sign Markus Hegner, one for the future
Markus Hegner is 19, and Rotor 2 have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
In brief
- Market Rotor 2 buy the years ahead of Andrew Henderson
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Nikita Patkovich
- The dugout Eduard Alborov knocks on the manager’s door