The Baltika Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
Baltika turn down Spartak Moscow for Eldar Ćivić
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Mikhail Ryadno, 20, steals the show — 8.21
Marked 8.21 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Lokomotiv Moscow tell Baltika: Yegor Pogostnov is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Brayan Gil signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Brayan Gil and Baltika agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Baltika
Kirill Stepanov 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Maxim Petrov falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Mikhail Ryadno
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Brayan Gil
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sochi join the queue for Mikhail Ryadno
Add another name to the list: Sochi have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mikhail Ryadno. The answer from Baltika has not changed — yet.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Fedor Zhuravlev joins the Baltika first team
- Market One of our own: Aleksey Kalinovsky joins the Baltika first team
- Player ratings Eldar Ćivić was unplayable