Marked for Tadas Lasickas
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market28 Jun 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.
Market28 Jun 2027
Vsevolod Bykov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Vologda they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Dinamo Vologda have done the hard part with Dinamo Kirov, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
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 Vologda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Orenburg wanted more than $25.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Boardroom28 Jun 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Dinamo Vologda now.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market28 Jun 2027
Add another name to the list: Chertanovo have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Gleb Gusev. The answer from Dinamo Vologda has not changed — yet.
The dugout28 Jun 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Market14 Jun 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Danila Yezhkov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Danila Kalin, and the manager let it.
Boardroom14 Jun 2027
Wages eat 85% of everything Dinamo Vologda 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nikita Kireev signs something — a contract at Dinamo Vologda or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
Gleb Gusev gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Gleb Gusev is on it.
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Steady
Squad7 Jun 2027
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Dinamo Vologda had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Market7 Jun 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Vologda they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Artem Isik 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 Vologda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Tadas Lasickas gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Tadas Lasickas has just signed for Dinamo Vologda, and for once the answer mattered.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Danila Yezhkov, and the manager let it.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
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 dugout7 Jun 2027
Danila Kalin 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 Danila Kalin trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market7 Jun 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Andrey Yakovlev signs something — a contract at Dinamo Vologda or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Match7 Jun 2027
Continental football is in reach for Dinamo Vologda
46 points from position 4. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.