The Mashuk Sentinel
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Mashuk
Astemir Abazov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Zikrula Magomedov 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Rasul Gystarov
“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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Mashuk keep their word to Yegor Saigushev
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Market23 Nov 2026
The Ivan Selemenev talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mashuk know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Kirill Pomeshkin has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Kirill Pomeshkin has written the date down.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Sevada Torosyan knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Sevada Torosyan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market23 Nov 2026
Another notebook out for Tamaz Topuria
Akhmat Grozny watched Tamaz Topuria again at the weekend, and this time they did not bother hiding it. Clubs only stop hiding when they want the price to start moving.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Yegor Plotnikov is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
In brief
- Squad Ivan Selemenev is out on the grass again
- Loan watch Mukhammad Khalibegov's loan at Angusht nearly up