Timur Nikolov

Right Back - Alania
18 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Timur Nikolov

6 Edition

The Alania Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Soslan Kachmazov damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Zaurbek Ramonov

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Zaurbek Ramonov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Alania the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Timur Nikolov 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 Alania can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A row about effort at Alania

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

Squad

A step back for Artur Byazrov at Alania

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Alania

5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Fyodor Myasnikov

“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.

Market

Alania put Murat Yshyk up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Murat Yshyk may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

The dugout

Artem Zakirov asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

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The Alania Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Soslan Kachmazov damages knee ligaments — 37 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 37 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.

Market

Terms done: Timur Chetoev is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Zvezda waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Alania is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Spartak Gogniev 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 Alania, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Anzor Amiraliev runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Alania say no — this time

The offer from Rubin Yalta for Timur Nikolov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Words at Alania training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Batraz Gurtsiev 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.

Transfer targets

Alania rebuffed over Faisal Al-Essa

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Chernomorets have kept their man, and Alania go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Ivan Matyushenko sends Alania past Dinamo Kirov

It finished 2‑0, and it was Ivan Matyushenko’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Alania.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Ivan Matyushenko

A mark of 7.91, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief