The Rotor Gazette
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Irakly Manelov was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 26. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Filip Mladenović due for a Rotor medical
Everything agreed with Panathinaikos, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Nikolay Prisyazhnenko turns down Rotor
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Rotor
Irakly Manelov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Oleg Klimov joins the Rotor first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Oleg Klimov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Rotor promote Fedot Semak from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fedot Semak 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
Innokentiy Polivanov steps up from the Rotor academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Innokentiy Polivanov 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
Nazar Aksyonov steps up from the Rotor academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nazar Aksyonov 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Said Aliev was the difference for Rotor
Marked 7.78. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
In brief
- Match Said Aliev rescues a point for Rotor
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout No place in the plan for Alexandr Troshechkin