The Krylya Sovetov Sentinel
Player ratings17 Jul 2028
Ivan Bober runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Jul 2028
A fracture rules Nikolai Zhirkov out for 81 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Krylya Sovetov will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market17 Jul 2028
Spartak Moscow join the queue for Roman Yevgenjev
Add another name to the list: Spartak Moscow have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Roman Yevgenjev. The answer from Krylya Sovetov has not changed — yet.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Matheus Alves 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.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Krylya Sovetov
Thomas Galdames 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.
Boardroom17 Jul 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Krylya Sovetov
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.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Words at Krylya Sovetov training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fernando Costanza 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.
Market17 Jul 2028
Krylya Sovetov promote Maksim Plotnikov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Maksim Plotnikov 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.
Market17 Jul 2028
One of our own: Konstantin Sokolov joins the Krylya Sovetov first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Konstantin Sokolov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Denis Yershov steps up from the Krylya Sovetov academy
- Match Point won or two lost for Krylya Sovetov?
- The terraces The stands have heard the Roman Yevgenjev talk too