Marked for Alexandr Zybin
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Daniil Lobanov out for 99 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kvant will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market31 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 The request is on a desk at Kvant, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Kvant
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a goal for Kvant
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Kvant
Victor Drăgoi 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Magomednur Isaev 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
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
Kvant bow out of the cup
Textilschik go through and Kvant go home, 0‑5 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
A cup hiding at Textilschik leaves Kvant explaining themselves
0-5, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kvant can pretend not to have heard.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Kvant's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kvant has to find a result from somewhere.
Match22 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Kvant
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Maxim Timchenko 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kvant this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Aug 2026
Kvant come up short against Salyut
Salyut left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Doors closed at Kvant
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
231 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vitaly Yakovlev and Kvant agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Kvant
Vitaly Yakovlev 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Kvant have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Alexey Chaplygin 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.