The Dinamo St Petersburg Courier
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Pavel Kireenko
Successful dribbles: 43. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Aug 2026
Dinamo St Petersburg out of the cup
Ryazan ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Vintage Rizvan Umarov — 7.96
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.96, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Dinamo St Petersburg
Rizvan Umarov 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Dinamo St Petersburg rebuffed over Stanislav Basyrov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rodina have kept their man, and Dinamo St Petersburg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Dinamo St Petersburg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oleksandr Masalov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Dinamo St Petersburg supporters have found a favourite in Omar Popov
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Omar Popov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match22 Aug 2026
Dinamo St Petersburg see off Rodina M
Three points for Dinamo St Petersburg, 2‑0 the final word against Rodina M in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Omar Popov
Marked 8.02 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Player ratings Both jobs done by Faisal Ismail Abdelrahim — 6.61
- Market A long bet from Dinamo St Petersburg on Daniil Valkov
- The dugout Grigory Shevchenko: “That is the standard”