Ignas Dubickas

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40 Edition

The Irtysh Chronicle

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom3 May 2027

Irtysh spell it out for Vyacheslav Mitin

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Vyacheslav Mitin has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Match3 May 2027

Irtysh are in real trouble now

Position 6, 12 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad3 May 2027

Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Smirnov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout3 May 2027

No hiding place for Alexandr Goryachkin

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Goryachkin, and the manager let it.

The dugout3 May 2027

Yury Bavin loses the manager who believed in him

A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Yury Bavin's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.

Market3 May 2027

Irtysh and Alexandr Grin are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout3 May 2027

When it matters, Vitaly Ustinov plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout3 May 2027

Vladislav Zvyagov 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 Vladislav Zvyagov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad3 May 2027

Alexandr Goryachkin: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Irtysh will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

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The Irtysh Chronicle

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad19 Apr 2027

A row about effort at Irtysh

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Smirnov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Al-Zahri 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 Irtysh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom19 Apr 2027

Wages eat 114% of everything Irtysh earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

No hiding place for Alexandr Belyaev

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Belyaev, and the manager let it.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Ignas Dubickas is a square peg at Irtysh

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Market19 Apr 2027

Ignas Dubickas brings the grey hairs Irtysh lacked

At 34, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

Market19 Apr 2027

Ilja Krylov placed on the list

Irtysh have made Ilja Krylov available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Market19 Apr 2027

The Roman Yanushkovskiy question follows Irtysh around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Roman Yanushkovskiy’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market19 Apr 2027

The clock does Vladislav Zvyagov’s negotiating for him

4 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Irtysh could ask drops and the wages Vladislav Zvyagov can ask rise.

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