Nicolas Tabor

Goalkeeper - Kuban Holding
29 Oct 2027
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Marked for Nicolas Tabor

56 Edition

The Kuban Holding Courier

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Kuban Holding bow out of the cup

Uralets-TS go through and Kuban Holding go home, 0‑8 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Match

No end in sight to Kuban Holding's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kuban Holding has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Sergey Kopylov stands alone

7 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 terraces

A cup hiding at Uralets-TS leaves Kuban Holding explaining themselves

0-8, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.

Player ratings

Radislav Veselovskiy, 20, steals the show — 7.66

Marked 7.66 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Dmitry Mikhailov

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Dmitry Marinchenko 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 The request is on a desk at Kuban Holding, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

8 goals as Kuban Holding and Uralets-TS go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Kuban Holding and Uralets-TS, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Player ratings

Gleb Rybakov did the work nobody counts — 6.82

13 combined actions and 6.82. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

In brief

Back issues
46 Edition

The Kuban Holding Courier

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Nikita Tagiev says Kuban Holding 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.

Market

Pavel Banschikov asks to leave Kuban Holding

“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.

Squad

A falling-out at Kuban Holding

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

Squad

Words at Kuban Holding training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michał Wcisło 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.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 215% of the Kuban Holding 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.

Market

Ivan Sergienko told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ivan Sergienko has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Kuban Holding.

The dugout

Aslan Dashaev knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Aslan Dashaev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Michał Wcisło question follows Kuban Holding around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Michał Wcisło’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The terraces

The Alexandr Goryachkin rumours reach the terraces

What was a back-page link has become a chant, and the chant is not friendly. Kuban Holding would rather it were settled quietly, and it has stopped being quiet.

In brief

45 Edition

The Kuban Holding Courier

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

German Sokolov has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Kuban Holding can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Boardroom

Crisis meeting at Kuban Holding

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad

Alexandr Goryachkin is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Kuban Holding will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Transfer targets

Arman Ghukasyan turns down Kuban Holding

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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Kuban Holding

Sergey Serchenkov 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Kuban Holding

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

Market

Kuban Holding buy the years ahead of Nicolas Tabor

He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad

Nicolas Tabor stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nicolas Tabor and Kuban Holding agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mikhail Gashchuk

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

In brief