Paul Keseru

Left Midfielder - Chaika
28 Jan 2029
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115 Edition

The Chaika Courier

9 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings9 Oct 2028

Paul Keseru runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match4 Oct 2028

Chaika march on in the cup

Chernomorets are out and Chaika go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Market9 Oct 2028

Artyom Zhirinovsky asks to leave Chaika

“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.

Squad9 Oct 2028

Mikhail Schetinin 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 Chaika this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad9 Oct 2028

The manager makes an example of Artur Byazrov

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings9 Oct 2028

Gevork Sarkisyan was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.03. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Match7 Oct 2028

Honours even between Chaika and Dinamo Makhachkala

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad9 Oct 2028

Nikolay Ischenko named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Nikolay Ischenko has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

Squad9 Oct 2028

Arseny Filev finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Chaika have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

In brief

Back issues
106 Edition

The Chaika Courier

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Aug 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Luka Belyaev

32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chaika lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings7 Aug 2028

Nobody could get near Jhon Cabal

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom7 Aug 2028

The Chaika board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Real improvement from Vitaly Dunay (Karpenko) at Chaika

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Vitaly Dunay (Karpenko) is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match5 Aug 2028

No end in sight to Chaika's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Chaika has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Tempers go at Chaika

Stanislav Biblyk 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.

Squad7 Aug 2028

A late step up for Paul Keseru

At 27 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Player ratings7 Aug 2028

Pavel Maslov takes the honours

Marked 7.19 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Chaika had the best player on the pitch.

Market7 Aug 2028

Paul Keseru is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Chaika has been clear about where Paul Keseru stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

99 Edition

The Chaika Courier

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market19 Jun 2028

Gevork Sarkisyan asks to leave Chaika

“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.

Squad19 Jun 2028

Paul Keseru keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Chaika may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad19 Jun 2028

Stanislav Biblyk 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 Chaika this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad19 Jun 2028

A move Gustav Elmer would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Gustav Elmer is living that version at Chaika, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad19 Jun 2028

No hiding place for Nikolay Ischenko

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

Market19 Jun 2028

Chaika sign Gustav Elmer, one for the future

Gustav Elmer is 19, and Chaika have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

85 Edition

The Chaika Courier

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad13 Mar 2028

A fracture rules Denis Kondrashenko out for 40 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Chaika will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad13 Mar 2028

Stanislav Biblyk 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 Chaika this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad13 Mar 2028

Maxim Boldyrev falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief