The Spartak Kostroma Gazette
Match10 Jul 2028
Every point is an argument now for Spartak Kostroma
Position 16 and 31 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market10 Jul 2028
Faruk Gogić asks to leave Spartak Kostroma
“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.
The dugout10 Jul 2028
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Squad10 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Spartak Kostroma
Đorđe Pantelić 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.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Artem Goryainov is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.
Market10 Jul 2028
Rubin are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Spartak Kostroma will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad10 Jul 2028
A row about effort at Spartak Kostroma
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikolay Tarasov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Jul 2028
Spartak Moscow tell Spartak Kostroma: Vadim Tsygankov is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Jul 2028
Spartak Kostroma promote Stepan Skvortsov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stepan Skvortsov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Spartak Kostroma promote Rodion Zhemchuzhnikov from within
- Boardroom Wages eat 85% of everything Spartak Kostroma earn
- Squad The formation has left Arkhip Leonov behind