Emil Ganeev

Defensive Midfielder - Strogino
27 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

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21 Edition

The Strogino Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Fedor Starostin keeps Strogino in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

The wait goes on for Strogino

8 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.

Market

Valery Ozerov 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 The request is on a desk at Strogino, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Strogino

Vladislav Kostin 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.

Squad

Words at Strogino training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ilja Zakharov 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Fedor Starostin

At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Strogino come up short against Znamya Truda

Znamya Truda left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Anton Belyakov left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

No hiding place for Emil Ganeev

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

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Strogino Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for Strogino

0‑4 against SKA Khabarovsk 2, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Market

Sergey Guzyuk hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Strogino can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Fedor Starostin stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

The dugout

Emil Ganeev says Strogino went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

A falling-out at Strogino

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

Squad

A row about effort at Strogino

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

Boardroom

Nobody left the Strogino dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

Anton Belyakov answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑4, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Strogino keep their word to Vladislav Kostin

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief

11 Edition

The Strogino Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Sergey Guzyuk 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 Strogino, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

The step up is real for Emil Ganeev

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Tempers go at Strogino

Ilja Zakharov 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.

Squad

8 new faces, and Strogino are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

Fedor Starostin gets it from the manager

“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.

The dugout

Magomed-Deni Tsutsulaev asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief