Marked for Danil Goryaev
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market27 Sep 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.
Market27 Sep 2027
Daniil Maltsev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Kirov they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Maxim Lauk 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 Dinamo Kirov this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Mironov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.55 on the card, and the Dinamo Kirov support went home talking about one name.
Squad27 Sep 2027
4 goals and a season average of 7.28 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Defensive actions: 14. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Steady
Squad20 Sep 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match18 Sep 2027
Volgar made Dinamo Kirov work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad20 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Kirov this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Sep 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.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Defensive actions: 17, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“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; Dinamo Kirov are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
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Uneasy
Market13 Sep 2027
“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 Dinamo Kirov, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market13 Sep 2027
Only the photograph left for Savely Pavlov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Savely Pavlov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Kirov the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Evgeny Pesikov 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.
Boardroom13 Sep 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Dinamo Kirov now.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad13 Sep 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.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
One of those days for Maxim Lauk
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.51, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match11 Sep 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Steady
Market9 Aug 2027
“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 Dinamo Kirov, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad9 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Kirov this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match7 Aug 2027
Whatever happens, Dinamo Kirov do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Aug 2027
19 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Danil Goryaev, and the manager let it.
Boardroom9 Aug 2027
98% of the income goes out in wages at Dinamo Kirov
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vladimir Pertsev and Dinamo Kirov agree another 2 years.
Market9 Aug 2027
Luki-Energiya are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Dinamo Kirov will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Steady
Market28 Jun 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Kirov is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Kirov this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market28 Jun 2027
The fee is $29.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Volgar drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market28 Jun 2027
Luki-Energiya pay $11.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market28 Jun 2027
Yegor Ivantsov has left for Zenit Penza in a $11.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Danil Novoselov and Dinamo Kirov agree another 3 years.
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Steady
Squad28 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volgar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market28 Jun 2027
Danil Goryaev has left for Dinamo Kirov in a $29.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market28 Jun 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Yegor Proshkin signs something — a contract at Volgar or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Market21 Jun 2027
Volgar say no — this time
The offer from Zvezda for Magomed Nasibov 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
Danil Goryaev 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 Volgar can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kirill Kolesnichenko commits to Volgar for another 3 years.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Volgar
Ibragim Umarov 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.
Boardroom21 Jun 2027
Volgar counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Volgar now.
Market21 Jun 2027
Dinamo Kirov are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Volgar will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Steady
Market17 May 2027
“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 Volgar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad17 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volgar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 May 2027
240% of the income goes out in wages at Volgar
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Loan watch17 May 2027
21 appearances at Orel and the goals keep coming. Volgar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Squad17 May 2027
The language is coming and there is somebody to talk to in the dressing room. A footballer who feels at home plays like one, and it never shows up in a scouting report.
Squad17 May 2027
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Danil Poluboyarinov’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
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Steady
Squad15 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volgar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch15 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Veles to sit and watch. I want to come back to Volgar and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 31 matches say the rest.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to German Utkin, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Volgar
Kirill Kolesnichenko 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.
Market22 Feb 2027
The paperwork is done: Sergey Shulga joins from Rubin Yalta in a deal worth $6.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
304% of the income goes out in wages at Volgar
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Market22 Feb 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Danil Goryaev has his answer from Volgar; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
21 appearances away from home and 7 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Volgar
Kirill Kolesnichenko 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
926% of the income goes out in wages at Volgar
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
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Steady
Market14 Dec 2026
“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 Volgar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Dmitry Ivanov: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Volgar have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Volgar
Vladislav Yampolskiy 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.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volgar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
The Volgar debt reaches $2.2M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The award goes to Shahin Shojaei, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Daichi Hayashi
“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.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
The numbers do not look good at Volgar
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
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Crisis
Match18 Nov 2026
The cup run ends for Volgar
0‑2 against Zenit, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad23 Nov 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volgar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“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.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Volgar, and 5 appearances in 15 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Marked 5.72, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Marked 5.73, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.