The Chaika Courier
Squad20 Mar 2028
Tempers go at Chaika
Stanislav Biblyk 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 2028
Evidence Billiat gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Evidence Billiat has just signed for Chaika, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Words at Chaika training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Julian Vazquez 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.
Boardroom20 Mar 2028
Wages eat 142% of everything Chaika 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.
Loan watch20 Mar 2028
Ruslan Cherviakov has seen enough of Baltika
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Chaika, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Market20 Mar 2028
Chaika buy the years ahead of Evidence Billiat
He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
In brief
- Market Chaika sign Marek Sestak, one for the future
- Market Chaika buy the years ahead of Romano Greco
- Squad No hiding place for Ruslan Kazakov
- Market Artem Sokolov linked with a move away