The Lokomotiv Moscow Sentinel
Market24 Aug 2026
Not going: Nikita Saltykov stays at Lokomotiv Moscow
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Dinamo Minsk had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Tomáš Chorý scores twice — 8.43
Two goals and a mark of 8.43 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Door shut on Kirian
Lokomotiv Moscow asked and Las Palmas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Sergey Pinyaev at 21 — 7.91
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Sergey Pinyaev did not need any: 7.91, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Too dear: Lokomotiv Moscow walk away from Roberto Fernández
$2.6M was the most the club would pay and Akron were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Lokomotiv Moscow
Evgeny Morozov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match22 Aug 2026
Lokomotiv Moscow get the job done against Krylya Sovetov
A 2‑0 win over Krylya Sovetov, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Arseniy Kudryavtsev joins the Lokomotiv Moscow first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Arseniy Kudryavtsev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Aug 2026
Vladlen Aliyev steps up from the Lokomotiv Moscow academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Vladlen Aliyev has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Igor Danilov joins the Lokomotiv Moscow first team
- Squad Lucas Vera falls out with a teammate over standards
- The dugout The view from the dugout