The Orenburg Courier
Squad9 Jul 2029
Egor Parkhomenko damages knee ligaments — 67 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 67 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market9 Jul 2029
Osman Minatulaev puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Orenburg, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets9 Jul 2029
Kirill Pomeshkin is a medical away from Orenburg
The deal with Dinamo Makhachkala is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets9 Jul 2029
Diego Di Salvatore will not be coming to Orenburg
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at AS Roma is saying, and nobody at Orenburg is enjoying the guessing.
Squad9 Jul 2029
Tempers go at Orenburg
Egor Parkhomenko 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.
Squad9 Jul 2029
Real improvement from Renat Golybin at Orenburg
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Renat Golybin is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad9 Jul 2029
A late step up for Robert Mejía
At 28 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Boardroom9 Jul 2029
Orenburg beat the market to Santiago Fonzo from Ural
Ural will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Santiago Fonzo has pre-agreed a move to Orenburg, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Market9 Jul 2029
Orenburg buy the years ahead of Fabio Bădărău
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.
In brief
- Market Orenburg sign Oleksandr Linskyi, one for the future
- Market Orenburg buy the years ahead of Facundo Gómez
- The dugout Robert Mejía has become a man the manager trusts