The Sevastopol Courier
Market17 Jul 2028
Sevastopol sell their best player to Vizela
$450.0K is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
The terraces17 Jul 2028
Sevastopol sell a favourite for $450.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Boran Eligüzel was one of the reasons people came, and $450.0K does not replace that by itself.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Daniil Valkov is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Boardroom17 Jul 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Sevastopol
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Jul 2028
Yakov Tsvetkov steps up from the Sevastopol academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yakov Tsvetkov 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.
Market17 Jul 2028
One of our own: Viktor Pugachev joins the Sevastopol first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Viktor Pugachev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Jul 2028
One of our own: Vsevolod Maltsev joins the Sevastopol first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vsevolod Maltsev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Dmitry Solovjov has improved at 30, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad17 Jul 2028
The manager makes an example of Vladislav Kucheiko
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Player ratings Artem Stepanovich stands above it all
- Match Honours even between Sevastopol and Spartak Nalchik
- Boardroom Sevastopol turn down the training-ground plan