The Kaluga Courier
Squad5 Jul 2027
50 days out for Akbar Tanjung after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kaluga will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market5 Jul 2027
Kaluga say no — this time
The offer from Druzhba for Gleb Bakharev 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
Amur Balkizov is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Kaluga is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Ewen Basty gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ewen Basty has just signed for Kaluga, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Kaluga
Ilja Grischenko 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.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Fakel tell Kaluga: Vyacheslav Dorovskikh 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Kaluga
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vladislav Konovalov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Gleb Bakharev
“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.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
A loan move for Sergey Gaiduk is in the works
Kaluga have made the call to Salyut. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- Transfer targets Kaluga ask about Kirill Volkov
- Market Kaluga buy the years ahead of Ivano Matas
- Market A long bet from Kaluga on Ewen Basty