Robin Timber

Left Wingback - Feniks
26 Sep 2028
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111 Edition

The Feniks Herald

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom11 Sep 2028

The numbers do not look good at Feniks

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Market11 Sep 2028

Robin Timber 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 The request is on a desk at Feniks, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Tempers go at Feniks

Oleksandr Chornomorets 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.

Match9 Sep 2028

A bad afternoon for Feniks against Vorskla

2‑3 to Vorskla, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Words at Feniks training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pavlo Orikhovskyi 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.

Squad11 Sep 2028

The manager makes an example of Damián Arruabarrena

“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.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Pavlo Orikhovskyi is still paying for one afternoon at Feniks

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Player ratings11 Sep 2028

Pavlo Orikhovskyi gives it away

There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Feniks lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.

Player ratings11 Sep 2028

Issam Eddine Tahouri will replay that one

1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.

In brief

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98 Edition

The Feniks Herald

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market12 Jun 2028

Only the photograph left for Maksym Radchenko

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Maksym Radchenko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Feniks the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Oleksandr Chornomorets 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 Feniks this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Pavlo Orikhovskyi 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.

In brief

97 Edition

The Feniks Herald

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market5 Jun 2028

Issam Eddine Tahouri asks to leave Feniks

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Ruslan Kotchenko keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Feniks may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Issam Eddine Tahouri wants to go home

“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 Feniks know it.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Tempers go at Feniks

Oleksandr Chornomorets 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.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Real improvement from Dennis Bossman at Feniks

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dennis Bossman is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market5 Jun 2028

Feniks sign Monty Nelson, one for the future

Monty Nelson is 20, and Feniks have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

58 Edition

The Excelsior Gazette

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad6 Sep 2027

Zach Booth is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Casper Widell has improved at 24, 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.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Words at Excelsior training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Irakli Yegoian 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.

Squad6 Sep 2027

No hiding place for Nacho Ferri

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nacho Ferri, and the manager let it.

Player ratings6 Sep 2027

A defender's afternoon for Anel Ahmedhodžić

Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings6 Sep 2027

A defender's afternoon for Noah Naujoks

Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Market6 Sep 2027

Mathijs Tielemans is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Excelsior has been clear about where Mathijs Tielemans stands, which is more than many ever get.

Player ratings6 Sep 2027

Nacho Ferri could have had three

5 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

Player ratings6 Sep 2027

Iman Griffith could have had three

4 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

In brief