The Orel Courier
Squad26 Jun 2028
Evgeny Ushakov damages knee ligaments — 28 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market26 Jun 2028
Janis Ikaunieks puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Orel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Vadim Averkiev 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 Orel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Words at Orel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Georgy Suanov 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.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Vadim Averkiev has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Orel will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market26 Jun 2028
The Daniil Arsentjev question follows Orel around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Daniil Arsentjev’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Market Orel shop where it costs nothing
- Market Still no ink between Orel and Pavels Tarasovs