Stepan Pyatin

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50 Edition

The Orel Courier

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market12 Jul 2027

Stepan Pyatin puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Orel, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad12 Jul 2027

A falling-out at Orel

Vadim Averkiev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets12 Jul 2027

Door shut on Yegor Gulyaev

Orel asked and Chaika said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad12 Jul 2027

A row about effort at Orel

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mutaalim Magomedov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom12 Jul 2027

Wages swallow 176% of the Orel income

Every club 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 it has been tried.

The dugout12 Jul 2027

No hiding place for Konstantin Antipov

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

Transfer targets12 Jul 2027

A loan move for Vladimir Laptev is in the works

Orel have made the call to Sibir. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market12 Jul 2027

Orel and Aslan Aushev are talking past each other

“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.

The dugout12 Jul 2027

Mutaalim Magomedov knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mutaalim Magomedov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

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The Orel Courier

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad22 Mar 2027

Georgy Borisov is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.01 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Orel know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad22 Mar 2027

Words at Orel training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mutaalim Magomedov 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.

Boardroom22 Mar 2027

Wages swallow 204% of the Orel income

Every club 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 it has been tried.

Squad22 Mar 2027

A falling-out at Orel

Yegor Lipaev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout22 Mar 2027

The manager makes an example of Daniil Arsentjev

“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.

The dugout22 Mar 2027

When it matters, Konstantin Antipov plays

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.

In brief