Marked for Davis Cauna
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market12 Jan 2037
“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.
Squad12 Jan 2037
Ivan Havrushko 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.
Squad12 Jan 2037
Leon Aiba 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 Dinamo Stavropol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Jan 2037
When it matters, Davis Cauna plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad12 Jan 2037
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nikita Generalov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Boardroom5 Jan 2037
The administrators have gone from Dinamo Stavropol
A year of somebody else signing off every invoice ends this week. The books are smaller, the squad is smaller, and for the first time since it began the club is allowed to plan.
Boardroom5 Jan 2037
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Igor Zabelin has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom5 Jan 2037
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Market5 Jan 2037
Robert Wood has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Stavropol they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market5 Jan 2037
“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.
Squad5 Jan 2037
Maxim Ofitserov 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.
Squad5 Jan 2037
Words at Dinamo Stavropol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Kratkov 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.
Boardroom5 Jan 2037
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 Jan 2037
A place in the month's best eleven for Dmitry Kratkov
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Dmitry Kratkov has come out of that comparison in the side, and Dinamo Stavropol have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Uneasy
Market15 Dec 2036
“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.
Squad15 Dec 2036
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad15 Dec 2036
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Stavropol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Dec 2036
Dmitry Kratkov 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.
Squad15 Dec 2036
The team sheet said everything about Nikita Generalov
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Nikita Generalov.
Match13 Dec 2036
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Spartak Nalchik came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Player ratings15 Dec 2036
12 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Market15 Dec 2036
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom8 Dec 2036
Igor Zabelin has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Dinamo Stavropol can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market8 Dec 2036
“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 Dinamo Stavropol, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match6 Dec 2036
The 86th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Larson Ferati decided nobody was going anywhere. Angusht had no time left to answer.
Boardroom8 Dec 2036
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Market8 Dec 2036
Robert Wood has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Stavropol they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad8 Dec 2036
Dmitry Kratkov 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.
Squad8 Dec 2036
Words at Dinamo Stavropol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Havrushko 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.
Match6 Dec 2036
It finished 1‑0, and it was Larson Ferati’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Dinamo Stavropol.
Player ratings8 Dec 2036
7.63, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Dinamo Stavropol had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Crisis
The terraces3 Nov 2036
Anger at Dinamo Stavropol spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match1 Nov 2036
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Boardroom3 Nov 2036
Igor Zabelin has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Dinamo Stavropol can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market3 Nov 2036
Davis Cauna 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 Dinamo Stavropol can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom3 Nov 2036
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Squad3 Nov 2036
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Stavropol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Nov 2036
Dmitry Kratkov 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.
Boardroom3 Nov 2036
The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.
Squad3 Nov 2036
The manager makes an example of Aslan Mutaliev
“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.
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Crisis
Market20 Oct 2036
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Stavropol can pretend not to have heard.
Match18 Oct 2036
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Dinamo Stavropol are no longer polite ones.
Squad20 Oct 2036
A one-man rearguard from Davis Cauna
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad20 Oct 2036
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Stavropol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings20 Oct 2036
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad20 Oct 2036
Ivan Havrushko 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.
Match18 Oct 2036
1‑2 to Rubin Yalta, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad20 Oct 2036
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Crisis
Market13 Oct 2036
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Stavropol can pretend not to have heard.
Match11 Oct 2036
No end in sight to Dinamo Stavropol's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dinamo Stavropol has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad13 Oct 2036
Denis Ermakov: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dinamo Stavropol have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad13 Oct 2036
Words at Dinamo Stavropol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Kratkov 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.
Match11 Oct 2036
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad13 Oct 2036
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rustam Khalnazarov, and the manager let it.
Squad13 Oct 2036
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Market13 Oct 2036
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dinamo Stavropol know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market13 Oct 2036
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match20 Aug 2036
Mashuk go through and Dinamo Stavropol go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match23 Aug 2036
0‑3 against Legion, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad25 Aug 2036
Davis Cauna decides it from twelve yards
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match23 Aug 2036
No end in sight to Dinamo Stavropol's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dinamo Stavropol has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad25 Aug 2036
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market25 Aug 2036
“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.
Squad25 Aug 2036
Daniil Barinov 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.
Player ratings25 Aug 2036
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad25 Aug 2036
Dmitry Kratkov 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market18 Aug 2036
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Stavropol can pretend not to have heard.
Squad18 Aug 2036
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match16 Aug 2036
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Dinamo Stavropol are no longer polite ones.
Squad18 Aug 2036
Davis Cauna: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dinamo Stavropol have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match16 Aug 2036
1‑3 to Sochi 2, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad18 Aug 2036
Words at Dinamo Stavropol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Valentin Solodarenko 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.
Squad18 Aug 2036
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniil Barinov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings18 Aug 2036
Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market18 Aug 2036
The clock does Robert Wood’s negotiating for him
7 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Dinamo Stavropol could ask drops and the wages Robert Wood can ask rise.
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Crisis
Squad28 Jul 2036
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dinamo Stavropol may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market28 Jul 2036
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Stavropol can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Jul 2036
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad28 Jul 2036
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Stavropol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Jul 2036
Words at Dinamo Stavropol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ugochukwu Ejike 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.