Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Slutsk know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The name of Daniil Kirbay has come up in conversations Slutsk were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Slutsk know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Ilya Tishurov has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Slutsk know, and have known for weeks.
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.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slutsk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Slutsk know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Dmitriy Nekrashevich keeps the shirt for now, at Slutsk's convenience rather than his own.