Marked for Mark Solovyov
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The dugout28 May 2029
This is not rotation. Ivan Pyatkin has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Tyumen is pretending otherwise.
Squad28 May 2029
Alexandr Bem 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 Tyumen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 May 2029
Words at Tyumen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Zazvonkin 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.
The dugout28 May 2029
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout28 May 2029
Mikhail Petrov 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.
Market28 May 2029
The name of Ivan Zazvonkin keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tyumen say nothing, which says plenty.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom21 May 2029
Pressure builds in the Tyumen boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad21 May 2029
Tempers go at Tyumen
Alexandr Bem 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.
Squad21 May 2029
Damir Talikin 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.
The dugout21 May 2029
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market21 May 2029
The Ivan Pyatkin story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ivan Pyatkin signs something — a contract at Tyumen or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad21 May 2029
A wage question at Tyumen
Alexandr Bem has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom23 Apr 2029
The scrutiny sharpens at Tyumen
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Tyumen is running low.
Squad23 Apr 2029
A falling-out at Tyumen
Ivan Pyatkin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Words at Tyumen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Zazvonkin 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.
Squad23 Apr 2029
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout23 Apr 2029
A promise honoured at Tyumen
Something was said to Alexandr Bem and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout23 Apr 2029
Nikita Yanovich 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.
The dugout23 Apr 2029
Mikhail Petrov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tyumen 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.
Market23 Apr 2029
The Ivan Pyatkin story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ivan Pyatkin signs something — a contract at Tyumen or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market23 Apr 2029
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Tyumen could ask drops and the wages Valeriy Hambardzumyan can ask rise.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom26 Mar 2029
Pressure builds in the Tyumen boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market26 Mar 2029
“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 Tyumen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Tempers go at Tyumen
Alexandr Bem 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.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Ivan Zazvonkin 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.
Squad26 Mar 2029
The medical room confirms 46 days on the sidelines for Mark Solovyov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
“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.
Squad26 Mar 2029
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Tyumen know it.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
A promise honoured at Tyumen
Something was said to Alexandr Bezchasnyuk and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
Mikhail Petrov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tyumen 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.