The Khimik Gazette
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
Lucas Daniel runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match6 Oct 2027
The small margins put Khimik out
Out, 0‑1 to Sokol, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market11 Oct 2027
Dmitry Veber hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Khimik can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Vyacheslav Zinkov 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 Khimik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Khimik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Veber 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
No hiding place for Gleb Yakushevich
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gleb Yakushevich, and the manager let it.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
The afternoon belonged to Dmitry Veber
A mark of 7.95, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Market11 Oct 2027
A long bet from Khimik on Sandro Mikautadze
He is 19, and nobody at Khimik signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Too much change too quickly at Khimik
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Match Honours even between Khimik and Uralets-TS
- Market The Roman Raifegerste question follows Khimik around
- Player ratings The referee tires of Gleb Yakushevich