The Cherepovets Herald
Squad21 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Elnur Khalygov out for 41 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Cherepovets will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market21 Sep 2026
David Berezov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cherepovets they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Cherepovets
Elnur Khalygov 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Andrei Bykov stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andrei Bykov and Cherepovets agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Nikita Pichugin
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Pichugin, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Elnur Khalygov knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Cherepovets, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The plan did not have a place for Andrey Pyrkin
Nobody at Cherepovets is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Market21 Sep 2026
The clock does David Berezov’s negotiating for him
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Cherepovets could ask drops and the wages David Berezov can ask rise.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
When it matters, Daniil Zaitsev 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.
In brief
- Squad The room hears from David Berezov
- Market The window shut and Mikhail Zykov is still in the building
- Looking ahead Cherepovets host Tver