Marked for Raid Bikmukhametov
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad24 May 2032
Yegor Saigushev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout24 May 2032
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Orenburg 2 told Yegor Saigushev something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad24 May 2032
Yegor Vedernikov 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
Upbeat
Squad7 Jul 2031
23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Orenburg 2 lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad7 Jul 2031
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Orenburg 2 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout7 Jul 2031
Demjan Iljev: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Orenburg 2 have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market7 Jul 2031
“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.
Squad7 Jul 2031
At 27 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad7 Jul 2031
Filip Jović 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad23 Jun 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrey Kulagin
37 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Orenburg 2 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad23 Jun 2031
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Orenburg 2 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad23 Jun 2031
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Orenburg 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad9 Jun 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrey Kulagin
51 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Orenburg 2 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad9 Jun 2031
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Orenburg 2 will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market9 Jun 2031
“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 Orenburg 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad9 Jun 2031
Leo Lončar 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 Jun 2031
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Raid Bikmukhametov is living that version at Orenburg 2, and it tends to show in the first month.
The dugout9 Jun 2031
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Orenburg 2 told Raid Bikmukhametov something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.