102 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.
Daniil Stolyarov 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.
Squad29 May 2034
Artem Sokolov 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.
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
109 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.
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.
In brief
SquadWords at Chaika training over how hard people work
116 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.
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.
In brief
SquadWords at Chaika training over how hard people work
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Chaika can pretend not to have heard.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Braian Tolaba will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Chaika the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Karsten Ekorness 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.
Squad20 Mar 2034
Pavel Maslov 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.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Valur will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Valur they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Jónatan Ingi Jónsson 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lukáš Mikulaj 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.