Ivan Metin

Striker - Chaika
21 Sep 2027
Tuesday
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The Ural Chronicle

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Lokomotiv Moscow watching Nikita Iosifov

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Ural have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

Ural say no — this time

The offer from Znamya Truda for Pyotr Gorbachev 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

Tempers go at Ural

Léo Cordeiro 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.

Match

Martin Sekulić sends Ural past Rotor

It finished 3‑1, and it was Martin Sekulić’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ural.

Player ratings

Vladislav Sarveli runs at them all day

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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Srđan Babić

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.03, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

One of those days for Ítalo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.78, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Nikita Iosifov

Marked 8.66 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Market

Tobías Torrielli told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Tobías Torrielli has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Ural.

In brief