The Kaluga Courier
Market5 Feb 2029
Arnas Cernych 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 The request is on a desk at Kaluga, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
An order from above at Kaluga: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
$76.5K of the owner's money at Kaluga
The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Tempers go at Kaluga
Sergey Iljin 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.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
No signings allowed at Kaluga
The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
The Kaluga debt reaches $6.9M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Words at Kaluga training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Kudryk 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.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Albert Heyde has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Kaluga will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market5 Feb 2029
The Rinat Shakerov talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Kaluga know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Market Kaluga and Vladislav Konovalov are talking past each other
- Squad Iljas Muminov has had enough of the bench
- Market Kaluga put Rinat Shakerov up for sale