The Dinamo Kirov Gazette
Market20 Sep 2027
Vasily Ilik 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 The request is on a desk at Dinamo Kirov, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market20 Sep 2027
Only the photograph left for Ivan Goryainov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ivan Goryainov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Kirov the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Real improvement from Ivan Chesnakov at Dinamo Kirov
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ivan Chesnakov is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Artem Philippov did the work nobody counts — 6.49
12 combined actions and 6.49. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad20 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Dinamo Kirov
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vasily Ilik was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Dmitry Mikhailov signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dmitry Mikhailov and Dinamo Kirov agree another 3 years.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Danil Novoselov 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.
Market20 Sep 2027
A long bet from Dinamo Kirov on Ivan Chesnakov
He is 20, and nobody at Dinamo Kirov signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
Konstantin Serov: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
In brief
- The dugout Ismail Dibirov knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Stefan Kalinov gets it from the manager
- Match Dinamo Kirov draw a blank against Dinamo Vladivostok