The CSKA Moscow Gazette
Squad10 May 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolas Höfler
137 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. CSKA Moscow lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market10 May 2027
Matheus Alves hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what CSKA Moscow can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 May 2027
Moisés 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 CSKA Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 May 2027
Alexey Miranchuk 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.
Loan watch10 May 2027
Danila Kozlov counts the days
“I watch every CSKA Moscow game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Dinamo Bucharest runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout10 May 2027
When it matters, Sergej Milinković-Savić plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Ilja Agapov
“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.
Market10 May 2027
The Matvey Kislyak story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Matvey Kislyak signs something — a contract at CSKA Moscow or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market10 May 2027
Still no ink between CSKA Moscow and Matvey Lukin
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at CSKA Moscow, another week without a signature from Matvey Lukin.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Alerrandro
- The dugout Daniel Ruiz knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Dmitri Kalinovsky is starting to belong