Eldar Tkhakokhov

Defensive Midfielder - Nart
20 Jan 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Eldar Tkhakokhov

22 Edition

The Nart Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dmitry Pereverzev keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Nart may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Alexandr Olenev 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 Nart this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Nart

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Words at Nart training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aslan Dashaev 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 325% of everything Nart 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.

Player ratings

Lautaro Moyano runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Akhmed Ismailov was the difference for Nart

Marked 7.82. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Player ratings

Aslan Dashaev shuts the door

Defensive actions: 15, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

No hiding place for Eldar Tkhakokhov

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eldar Tkhakokhov, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Nart Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Nart

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.

Match

The goals have deserted Nart

6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Nart can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Aslan Dashaev 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Eldar Tkhakokhov

“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 ratings

Nobody could get near Lautaro Moyano

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Nart draw a blank against Astrakhan

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Astrakhan defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Squad

Yaroslav Dol asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Anar Panaev

Defensive actions: 12. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Market

The Alexandr Olenev story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Alexandr Olenev signs something — a contract at Nart or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief