Sidney Obazuaye

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Kaluga
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The Kaluga Courier

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match15 Nov 2027

Kaluga sink to position 8

14 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market15 Nov 2027

Yegor Lipaev asks to leave Kaluga

“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 Nov 2027

Yegor Lipaev 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.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Tempers go at Kaluga

Ilja Grischenko 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

A row about effort at Kaluga

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

The dugout15 Nov 2027

A promise honoured at Kaluga

Something was said to Denis Yeremeev and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Sidney Obazuaye wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Kaluga know it.

Looking ahead15 Nov 2027

Gleb Bakharev faces his old club

Kuban next, and one man in the Kaluga dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Igor Sokolov is doing the arithmetic

The table has started to be checked before the results are in, and that is always the tell. Nobody at Kaluga says the word out loud, and everybody in the building is thinking it.

In brief

Back issues
59 Edition

The Kaluga Courier

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match11 Sep 2027

No end in sight to Kaluga's wait for a win

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

Market13 Sep 2027

Artem Kuzmin 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 Kaluga, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings13 Sep 2027

Nobody could get near Igor Sokolov

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom13 Sep 2027

Window shuts: 9 in, 7 out at Kaluga

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 9 arrived, 7 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market13 Sep 2027

Yegor Lipaev attracts admirers

The name of Yegor Lipaev has come up in conversations Kaluga were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Match11 Sep 2027

The goals have deserted Kaluga

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Kaluga can tell you which week it ends in.

Boardroom13 Sep 2027

The numbers do not look good at Kaluga

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Transfer targets13 Sep 2027

Dinamo Bryansk tell Kaluga: Alexandr Novikov 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.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Words exchanged at Kaluga

Sergey Iljin 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.

In brief