The Kuban Gazette
Squad13 Sep 2027
Artem Varganov gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Artem Varganov has just signed for Kuban, and for once the answer mattered.
Market13 Sep 2027
Artem Varganov comes home
The shirt still fits. Artem Varganov is back at Kuban, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Kuban
Ilja Molteninov 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.
Boardroom13 Sep 2027
Kuban counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Kuban now.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Sergey Terekhov 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Yelisey Yemeljanov
“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.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
Dmitriy Blinov wants to come home
“I did not go to Znamya Truda to sit and watch. I want to come back to Kuban and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Market13 Sep 2027
Spartak Tambov are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Kuban will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market13 Sep 2027
The Mikhail Yakovlev story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mikhail Yakovlev signs something — a contract at Kuban or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- Market Kuban and Ivan Klimovich are talking past each other
- Loan watch Maxim Ofitserov has made Strogino’s shirt his own