Marked for Danil Novoselov
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match14 Nov 2026
14 matches without a win for Dinamo Kirov
The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Dinamo Kirov are no longer polite ones.
Market16 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Kirov can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Evgeny Pesikov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Dinamo Kirov training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrey Malykh is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Nikolay Kamaev
“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 ratings16 Nov 2026
A mark of 7.83, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Dinamo Kirov, and 2 appearances in 14 say he has earned the hearing.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
13 appearances at Znamya Truda and the goals keep coming. Dinamo Kirov are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Market26 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torpedo Vladimir can pretend not to have heard.
Match24 Oct 2026
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Torpedo Vladimir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Kolganov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
7 new faces, and Torpedo Vladimir are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Evgeny Pesikov
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo Kirov lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Andrey Malykh out for 20 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dinamo Kirov will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match17 Oct 2026
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market19 Oct 2026
“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 Dinamo Kirov, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Evgeny Pesikov 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.
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
Ilja Zharov hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torpedo Vladimir can pretend not to have heard.
Match10 Oct 2026
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Danil Novoselov: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Torpedo Vladimir have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Vladimir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Torpedo Vladimir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Korenblyum is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Agustín Orofino, and the manager let it.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Dinamo Vologda to sit and watch. I want to come back to Torpedo Vladimir and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.14 on the card, and the Torpedo Vladimir support went home talking about one name.
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Squad21 Sep 2026
Andrey Malykh breaks a bone — 49 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 49 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market21 Sep 2026
“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 Dinamo Kirov, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for Dinamo Kirov
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Dinamo Kirov are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Evgeny Pesikov 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Chizh, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.83, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Dinamo Kirov, and 0 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
Match19 Sep 2026
It needed Kirill Burykin to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Volgar, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
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.
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Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
“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 Torpedo Vladimir, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Alexandr Komissarov did not need any: 7.85, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market14 Sep 2026
So close: Ilja Zharov’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Irtysh moved on, Ilja Zharov reports back to Torpedo Vladimir, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Torpedo Vladimir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Kolganov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Alexandr Komissarov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Vladimir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Artem Gerasimov: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match19 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 win over Kosmos, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torpedo Vladimir can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Torpedo Vladimir's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Torpedo Vladimir has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Konstantin Popov 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Nikita Kolganov 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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 Dinamo Kirov, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Aug 2026
250 appearances across 8 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Dinamo Kirov know what they have.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andrey Malykh and Dinamo Kirov agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Vladimir Zadiraka 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Dinamo Kirov training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrey Malykh is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Vladimir Zadiraka has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dinamo Kirov, another week without a signature from Andrey Malykh.