The Pari Nizhniy Novgorod Chronicle
Squad6 Aug 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Vladislav Karapuzov
124 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pari Nizhniy Novgorod lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market6 Aug 2035
Thomas Thomas 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 Pari Nizhniy Novgorod can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings6 Aug 2035
Renaldo Cephas, 35, rolls back the years — 8.05
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.05 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad6 Aug 2035
10 seasons of Artem Sidorenko
80 appearances across 10 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Pari Nizhniy Novgorod know what they have.
Squad6 Aug 2035
Tempers go at Pari Nizhniy Novgorod
Nikita Kakkoev 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 Aug 2035
Kirill Stolbov 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.
Match4 Aug 2035
Renaldo Cephas rescues a point for Pari Nizhniy Novgorod
It needed Renaldo Cephas to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Krasnodar, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market6 Aug 2035
Christodoulos Thoma told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Christodoulos Thoma has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Pari Nizhniy Novgorod.
Player ratings6 Aug 2035
The one thing Matvey Urvantsev could not do
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
In brief
- Market Matvey Urvantsev linked with a move away
- Player ratings Kirill Stolbov runs at them all day
- Player ratings An afternoon Daniil Lesovoy will want back