Marked for Amin Khachaev
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Jul 2027
Zainudin Zainudinov 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Amin Khachaev
“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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Said Utsumiev 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market5 Jul 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Dinamo Makhachkala 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Dinamo Makhachkala 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Magomed Ibragimov 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Iljas Akhmedov and Dinamo Makhachkala 2 agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Apr 2027
Zainudin Zainudinov 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Magomed Ibragimov 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Amin Khachaev, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market21 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dinamo Makhachkala 2 may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
21 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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Uneasy
Match9 Nov 2026
Position 14, 15 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Zainudin Zainudinov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 Dinamo Makhachkala 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Dinamo Makhachkala 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Magomed Ibragimov 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Sochi 2 left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.