The Dinamo Kirov Gazette
Squad9 Aug 2027
Evgeny Pesikov 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 Dinamo Kirov this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Kirill Burykin runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Andrey Malykh 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.
Boardroom9 Aug 2027
Wages eat 117% of everything Dinamo Kirov earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad9 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Daniil Maltsev
“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 ratings9 Aug 2027
The afternoon belonged to Matvey Martinkevich
7.27, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Dinamo Kirov had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad9 Aug 2027
When it matters, Vladislav Teplyakov plays
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.
Match7 Aug 2027
Point won or two lost for Dinamo Kirov?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Tyumen? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Market9 Aug 2027
Oleg Sazonov leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Oleg Sazonov leaves Dinamo Kirov the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Market Nikita Rossokhin leaves for nothing
- Player ratings Nikolay Kamaev spends the afternoon fouling