The Rubin Post
Squad22 Mar 2027
The step up is real for Emil Galimullin
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Rubin training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Igor Vujačić 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 dugout22 Mar 2027
Alexandr Zotov gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alexandr Zotov is on it.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
A door opens for Ruslan Bezrukov
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Alexey Gritsaenko knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alexey Gritsaenko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market22 Mar 2027
The shop window has Alexey Gritsaenko in it
Rubin have let the market know Alexey Gritsaenko can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
In brief
- Market The Ugochukwu Iwu talk will not go away
- Squad Dmitry Kabutov is the talk of the training ground
- Squad Grigory Cherkasov back in training