The Volgar Sentinel
Match4 Oct 2027
Volgar are in real trouble now
Position 8, 14 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match2 Oct 2027
5 matches without a win for Volgar
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Volgar are no longer polite ones.
Match2 Oct 2027
Still nobody has beaten Volgar
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Ilja Zuev signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ilja Zuev commits to Volgar for another 2 years.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
196% of the income goes out in wages at Volgar
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad4 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Danil Pelikh
“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.
Match2 Oct 2027
Honours even between Volgar and Alania
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Yegor Proshkin finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Volgar have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market4 Oct 2027
Kirill Kolesnichenko linked with a move away
The name of Kirill Kolesnichenko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Volgar say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Squad Dmitry Lesnikov unhappy with how he is being used
- Market Talks stall between Volgar and Daniel Herrera
- Market Mikhail Strelnik placed on the list