Michy Januzaj

Striker - Metallurg
20 Sep 2026
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Marked for Michy Januzaj

6 Edition

The Metallurg Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Dmitry Savin

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market7 Sep 2026

Nikita Panov 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 Metallurg can pretend not to have heard.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Gonçalo Cascalheira stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Gonçalo Cascalheira and Metallurg agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words at Metallurg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maxim Vedeneev 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.

Match5 Sep 2026

Metallurg find a way past Rodina M

Rodina M made Metallurg work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Nikita Kononenko 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 Metallurg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Metallurg Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Dmitry Savin

Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Alexey Skvortsov, 34, rolls back the years — 7.83

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.83 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Metallurg

Ilnur Badrtdinov 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Artem Ntumba moves on

Kuban pay $49.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Maxim Vedeneev 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Metallurg find a way past SKA Khabarovsk 2

SKA Khabarovsk 2 made Metallurg work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Market17 Aug 2026

The Alexandr Burykin conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Ryazan will make the call about Alexandr Burykin this week. Metallurg have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Market17 Aug 2026

The Alexey Skvortsov question follows Metallurg around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Alexey Skvortsov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad17 Aug 2026

The plan did not have a place for Kirill Dontsov

Nobody at Metallurg is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

In brief

2 Edition

The Metallurg Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market10 Aug 2026

Metallurg turn down Amkar for Daniil Chernyakov

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Dmitry Savin

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Alexandr Kobzev 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 Metallurg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Michy Januzaj signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Michy Januzaj commits to Metallurg for another 3 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Daniil Chernyakov gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market10 Aug 2026

The clock runs on Daniil Grigorjev's contract

48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

The afternoon belonged to Alexey Skvortsov

7.79, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Metallurg had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Market10 Aug 2026

Metallurg buy the years ahead of Aslan Aushev

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Match8 Aug 2026

Alexey Skvortsov rescues a point for Metallurg

It needed Alexey Skvortsov to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Zenit Penza, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief