The SKA Khabarovsk 2 Herald
Market23 Aug 2027
Not going: Leleco stays at SKA Khabarovsk 2
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Neftekhimik had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market23 Aug 2027
Alexandr Maximenko 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 SKA Khabarovsk 2 can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Home is on Leleco's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; SKA Khabarovsk 2 are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Matvey Uzhgin 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Alexandr Mukhin 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 SKA Khabarovsk 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
The form table has caught Mikhail Gorelishvili
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
No hiding place for Eldar Bliev
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eldar Bliev, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead23 Aug 2027
Nürtilek Sulaymanov goes back to face Ryazan
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Nürtilek Sulaymanov’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and SKA Khabarovsk 2 needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Alexandr Maximenko knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at SKA Khabarovsk 2, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- The dugout Alexandr Mukhin left out for tactical reasons at SKA Khabarovsk 2
- Market Alexandr Mukhin linked with a move away
- Squad Lev Ushakov wants out of the dugout