From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 May 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom24 May 2027
Volna counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Volna now.
Market24 May 2027
Experience through the door at Volna
Egor Laptev arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
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Steady
Market10 May 2027
“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.
Match10 May 2027
Volna are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 39 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad10 May 2027
Ivan Migunov gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Mar 2027
Volga come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Volna did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Mar 2027
The name of Igor Belyakov has come up in conversations Volna were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Erik Gubiev commits to Volna for another 4 years.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
Volna out of the cup
Dinamo Bryansk ended it 0-0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Dmitry Rebrov: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Market24 Aug 2026
Alania come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Volna did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Volna will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Match22 Aug 2026
Volna and Rubin 2 cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Rubin 2 came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
Artem Abramov 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 Volna can pretend not to have heard.
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Artem Abramov and Volna agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Volna have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Erik Gubiev
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.