Marked for Tymur Amilakhanov
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad13 Dec 2027
17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Yenisey lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match11 Dec 2027
8 matches without a win for Yenisey
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Yenisey are no longer polite ones.
Match11 Dec 2027
8 matches without a goal for Yenisey
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 8 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad13 Dec 2027
39 days out for Konstantin Vasin after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Yenisey will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market13 Dec 2027
“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.
Market13 Dec 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kirill Porshunov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Yenisey the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Yegor Shamov 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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
A row about effort at Yenisey
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Yegorov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
18 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad6 Dec 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tymur Amilakhanov
25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Yenisey lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match4 Dec 2027
The wait goes on for Yenisey
7 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.
Match4 Dec 2027
The goals have deserted Yenisey
7 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Yenisey can tell you which week it ends in.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
Nazar Terpugov: 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.” Yenisey have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad6 Dec 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Yenisey this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Words at Yenisey training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vladis Emmersón 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.
Match4 Dec 2027
A bad afternoon for Yenisey against Ural
0‑1 to Ural, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Looking ahead6 Dec 2027
Yenisey face KAMAZ in the game that matters most
Two sides from the bottom of the table, three points, and an afternoon that will be described afterwards as a relegation decider by whoever loses it.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cristiano Gutiérrez, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad29 Nov 2027
32 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Yenisey lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match29 Nov 2027
Yenisey sink to position 16
14 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match27 Nov 2027
No end in sight to Yenisey's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Yenisey has to find a result from somewhere.
Match27 Nov 2027
Yenisey cannot find the net
6 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad29 Nov 2027
A falling-out at Yenisey
Yegor Shamov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Words at Yenisey training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yegor Ivanov 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 dugout29 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Andrea Chukanov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Boardroom29 Nov 2027
134% of the income goes out in wages at Yenisey
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
The game went through Rodion Pechura — 6.74
Marked 6.74 on 10 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Nov 2027
39 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Yenisey lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match17 Nov 2027
Yenisey out of the cup
Orenburg ended it 0‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
The terraces22 Nov 2027
A cup embarrassment at Orenburg follows Yenisey home
0-3. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Match20 Nov 2027
The wait goes on for Yenisey
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.
Match20 Nov 2027
The goals have deserted Yenisey
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Yenisey can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad22 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Yenisey this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Words at Yenisey training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yegor Ivanov 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 dugout22 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Yegor Ivanov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Boardroom22 Nov 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tymur Amilakhanov
47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Yenisey lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
“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.
Market15 Nov 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Yenisey is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Yegor Shamov 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Words at Yenisey training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vladis Emmersón 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 dugout15 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Artem Pogosov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
A promise honoured for Azər Əliyev
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Yenisey told Azər Əliyev something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Yenisey, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad15 Nov 2027
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tymur Amilakhanov
54 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Yenisey lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Yegor Shamov in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Yenisey this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Nov 2027
34 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Vladis Emmersón 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.
Match6 Nov 2027
3 matches without a goal for Yenisey
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.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
“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.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Marked 7.38 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Yenisey had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Vadim Semak chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
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Crisis
Squad1 Nov 2027
Tymur Amilakhanov damages knee ligaments — 62 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 62 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match1 Nov 2027
Every point is an argument now for Yenisey
Position 17 and 11 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad1 Nov 2027
A falling-out at Yenisey
Yegor Shamov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match30 Oct 2027
Chernomorets left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladislav Kravtsov, and the manager let it.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
Wages swallow 112% of the Yenisey income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Vladislav Skavysh has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Market1 Nov 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Yenisey, another week without a signature from Vladislav Kravtsov.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Vadim Semak after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Steady
Squad25 Oct 2027
69 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Yenisey lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
A one-man rearguard from Yegor Shamov
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Yenisey
Yegor Shamov 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Vladis Emmersón 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.
Match23 Oct 2027
A bad afternoon for Yenisey against Ufa
0‑1 to Ufa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
“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 dugout25 Oct 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Vadim Semak to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
Yegor Shamov gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Yegor Shamov is on it.
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Upbeat
Squad18 Oct 2027
77 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Yenisey lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match13 Oct 2027
Yenisey through in the cup
A 3‑1 win over Orel, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market18 Oct 2027
“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.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
“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.
Market18 Oct 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kirill Porshunov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Yenisey the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Yegor Ivanov 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
A row about effort at Yenisey
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vladis Emmersón was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces18 Oct 2027
At 23 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.
Match16 Oct 2027
Three points for Yenisey, 1‑0 the final word against Akron in a contest settled by the finer margins.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Oct 2027
84 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Yenisey lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad11 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Yegor Ivanov out for 18 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Yenisey will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
The medical room confirms 63 days on the sidelines for Alexandr Kanaplin, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Yegor Shamov in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Yenisey this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Looking ahead11 Oct 2027
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Artem Pogosov’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Yenisey needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Dmitry Livanov knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Yenisey, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market11 Oct 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Vladislav Kravtsov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Crisis
Squad4 Oct 2027
Tymur Amilakhanov damages knee ligaments — 92 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 92 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad4 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Yegor Ivanov out for 26 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Yenisey will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match4 Oct 2027
Yenisey are in real trouble now
Position 18, 8 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yegor Ivanov commits to Yenisey for another 2 years.
Squad4 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Yenisey
Yegor Shamov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match2 Oct 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Wages eat 112% of everything Yenisey earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Market4 Oct 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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Crisis
Squad27 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Yegor Ivanov out for 33 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Yenisey will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad27 Sep 2027
99 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Yenisey lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match25 Sep 2027
Nowhere to hide for Yenisey
2‑5 against Rotor, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.67, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market27 Sep 2027
“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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at Yenisey
Yegor Shamov 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.
Match25 Sep 2027
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Yenisey and Rotor in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Hayk Simonyan gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Hayk Simonyan has just signed for Yenisey, and for once the answer mattered.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladis Emmersón, and the manager let it.
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The dugout
A promise honoured for Andrey Mazurin
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Steady
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 UCSA can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at UCSA
Pablo Castro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at UCSA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oleksiy Khoblenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dynamo Kyiv have kept their man, and UCSA go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Illia Skrypnyk and UCSA agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“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 dugout24 Aug 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at UCSA has been clear about where Danylo Sydorenko stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The division's best last weekend was a UCSA man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Oleksiy Khoblenko was the best thing in any of them.