The Torpedo Vladimir Sentinel
Boardroom3 Apr 2028
Yegor Okulov has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Torpedo Vladimir can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market3 Apr 2028
Only the photograph left for Konstantin Kuzmichev
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Konstantin Kuzmichev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Torpedo Vladimir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Tempers go at Torpedo Vladimir
Stanislav Basyrov 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.
Boardroom3 Apr 2028
The owner puts $215.8K into Torpedo Vladimir
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Konstantin Popov 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.
The dugout3 Apr 2028
Stanislav Basyrov loses the manager who believed in him
A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Stanislav Basyrov's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.
Squad3 Apr 2028
The armband comes off Stanislav Basyrov
Torpedo Vladimir will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
The dugout3 Apr 2028
Alexandr Vyaznikov 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 Alexandr Vyaznikov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout3 Apr 2028
No hiding place for Denis Prusakov
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denis Prusakov, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout Danil Sobolev has become a man the manager trusts
- Market The Konstantin Popov talk will not go away
- Squad Vladislav Sirotov handed the armband