The Salyut Courier
Squad10 Aug 2026
Vladislav Zernaev 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 Salyut this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Salyut rebuffed over Nikita Massalyga
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Spartak Moscow have kept their man, and Salyut go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Danil Nikulin steps up from the Salyut academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Danil Nikulin has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Pavel Lysenko steps up from the Salyut academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pavel Lysenko has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Salyut promote Miroslav Aliyev from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Miroslav Aliyev 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Gavriil Ryzhov joins the Salyut first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gavriil Ryzhov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Salyut
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arseny Prokurorov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Salyut try to borrow Vadim Shilov
Zenit have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Salyut
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Squad Dmitry Vitulin stays put
- Looking ahead Nikita Ponomarev faces his old club
- Looking ahead An away day at Ryazan next for Salyut