The Ural Chronicle
Market6 Sep 2027
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.
Market6 Sep 2027
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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
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.
Match4 Sep 2027
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 ratings6 Sep 2027
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 ratings6 Sep 2027
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 ratings6 Sep 2027
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 ratings6 Sep 2027
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.
Market6 Sep 2027
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
- Squad No hiding place for Alexandr Zotov
- Boardroom Wages eat 107% of everything Ural earn
- Loan watch Ivan Metin counts the days