The Dinamo Barnaul Gazette
Market22 Mar 2027
Savva Kotov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Barnaul they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
Roman Kommusar has agreed to leave Dinamo Barnaul for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Dinamo Barnaul training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Zhitnikov 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.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
141% of the income goes out in wages at Dinamo Barnaul
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Dinamo Barnaul
Anton Shadura and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Artem Sablin gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Artem Sablin is on it.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Emil Kamilov asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market22 Mar 2027
The clock does Vasily Ilik’s negotiating for him
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Dinamo Barnaul could ask drops and the wages Vasily Ilik can ask rise.
Market22 Mar 2027
The Nikita Chaly question follows Dinamo Barnaul around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nikita Chaly’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Victor Khugaev in it
- The dugout The manager comes out for Valery Titarenko
- Squad Dmitriy Shevchenko is fit again