The Shinnik Gazette
Squad15 Feb 2027
67 days out for Artem Golubev after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Shinnik will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market15 Feb 2027
Dmitry Samoilov says no to Rubin Yalta
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Dmitry Samoilov had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market15 Feb 2027
Terms done: Pavel Kuznetsov is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Dinamo Bryansk waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Shinnik is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market15 Feb 2027
Artem Abramov asks to leave Shinnik
“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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Shinnik say no — this time
The offer from Sevastopol for Kirill Nikitin was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Match13 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Shinnik
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.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Akhmat Grozny tell Shinnik: Miroslav Bogosavac is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Andhika Setiawan turns down Shinnik
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Ricardinho 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 Shinnik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Shinnik
- Squad A last season at home is what Cameron Lancaster is after
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Kirill Nikitin