Rauno Kait

Right Wingback - Dinamo Kirov
17 Sep 2028
Sunday
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The Dinamo Kirov Gazette

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Dinamo Kirov boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Tempers go at Dinamo Kirov

Evgeny Pesikov 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 102% of everything Dinamo Kirov earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

Gundars Smilškalns signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gundars Smilškalns and Dinamo Kirov agree another 3 years.

Squad

Evgeny Ignatovich asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

Dinamo Kirov put Vladislav Teplyakov up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Vladislav Teplyakov may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

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The Parnu Chronicle

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Taijo Liivak

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

The terraces

Anger at Parnu 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.

Market

Jackson Shorrocks asks to leave Parnu

“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.

Squad

Cleiton out for 56 days

The medical room confirms 56 days on the sidelines for Cleiton, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Leo Black 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.

Squad

Ken Ojamaa 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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief