Marked for Yegor Ivantsov
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad6 Nov 2028
Yury Kudrevaty damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match4 Nov 2028
1‑5 to KDV Tomsk, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market6 Nov 2028
“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 The request is on a desk at Uralets-TS, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom6 Nov 2028
The Uralets-TS board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Match4 Nov 2028
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Uralets-TS and KDV Tomsk in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Anatoly Anisimov 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.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Words at Uralets-TS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mathieu Oliveira 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 terraces6 Nov 2028
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Serafim Grozovskiy 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.
Squad6 Nov 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexey Naidenov, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad27 Mar 2028
Maxim Gorin 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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Mathieu Oliveira 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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
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.
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Crisis
Squad4 Oct 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mathieu Oliveira and Uralets-TS agree another 2 years.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Maxim Gorin 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Mathieu Oliveira 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.
Match2 Oct 2027
Dinamo Barnaul left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anatoly Anisimov, and the manager let it.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
98% of the income goes out in wages at Uralets-TS
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
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Steady
Squad9 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Alexey Naidenov out for 22 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Uralets-TS will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match7 Aug 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Volna, and it could have been more.
Squad9 Aug 2027
The match ball belongs to Jakub Jakimiuk, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
No sign of nerves from Arsen Revazov at 20 — 8.07
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Arsen Revazov did not need any: 8.07, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Mathieu Oliveira, 34, rolls back the years — 7.95
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.95 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexey Naidenov and Uralets-TS agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Maxim Gorin 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 ratings9 Aug 2027
Ninety minutes of Jakub Jakimiuk at his very best
Marked 9.27. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Uralets-TS.
The terraces9 Aug 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. August Bryld 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.
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Steady
Squad14 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Uralets-TS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom14 Jun 2027
106% of the income goes out in wages at Uralets-TS
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words at Uralets-TS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernardo Rodrigues 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.
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Steady
Squad7 Jun 2027
Maxim Gorin 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 Uralets-TS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Uralets-TS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mathieu Oliveira 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.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Uralets-TS now.
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Steady
Squad29 Mar 2027
Arsen Revazov 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Mathieu Oliveira 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Maxim Gorin gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Steady
Squad1 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Uralets-TS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at Uralets-TS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arsen Revazov 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Fyodor Guryev
30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Uralets-TS lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Arsen Revazov 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“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 Uralets-TS know it.