Joel Halliday

Goalkeeper - Ryazan
1 May 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Joel Halliday

24 Edition

The Ryazan Post

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Maxim Mishutin 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 The request is on a desk at Ryazan, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Svyatoslav Tses' 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 Ryazan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Ryazan come up short against Strogino

Strogino left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Joel Halliday signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Joel Halliday commits to Ryazan for another 3 years.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Nikita Satarov

At 22 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Nikita Satarov at his very best

Marked 8.06. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Ryazan.

Squad

Bartłomiej Kolec 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Vsevolod Buradjiev

“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.

Player ratings

Nikita Pogrebnev leaves them behind him

Shots: 5. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

In brief

Back issues
23 Edition

The Ryazan Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Bartłomiej Kolec hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ryazan can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Vsevolod Buradjiev says Ryazan 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Ryazan

Svyatoslav Tses' 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.

Squad

Maxim Vertiev is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Vsevolod Buradjiev signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vsevolod Buradjiev commits to Ryazan for another 3 years.

Match

Ryazan share the spoils with Rodina M

A 1‑1 draw with Rodina M leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Market

Talks stall between Ryazan and Joel Halliday

“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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mikhail Maiboroda

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Off the pace: Daniel Yegorov

A mark of 5.42 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief

6 Edition

The Ryazan Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Yaroslav Martynyuk damages knee ligaments — 20 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 20 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.

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 11 of the 30 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Squad

Bartłomiej Kolec stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Bartłomiej Kolec and Ryazan agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Daniel Yegorov is a Ryazan player

The fee is $39.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Znamya Truda drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

Svyatoslav Tses' 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 Ryazan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

Ryazan spend $68.0K on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $68.0K for Vsevolod Buradjiev, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Squad

Words at Ryazan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michele Pezzolato 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.

Match

Dinamo Bryansk take the points off Ryazan

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

A long bet from Ryazan on Vsevolod Buradjiev

He is 20, and nobody at Ryazan signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief