The Dinamo St Petersburg Courier
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Vladislav Shepelev delivers — 6.97
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Vladislav Shepelev scored, was marked 6.97, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Dinamo St Petersburg bid $15.0K for David Berezov
The offer went to Cherepovets this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Dinamo St Petersburg
Rizvan Umarov 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
Kouakou Adou signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kouakou Adou commits to Dinamo St Petersburg for another 3 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Georgy Makarov moves on
Irtysh pay $33.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Dinamo St Petersburg rebuffed over Ilja Gruznov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Khimik have kept their man, and Dinamo St Petersburg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Dinamo St Petersburg promote Maxim Baranovsky from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Maxim Baranovsky 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
Vlad Gavrilov steps up from the Dinamo St Petersburg academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Vlad Gavrilov 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
One of our own: Danila Sidorenko joins the Dinamo St Petersburg first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Danila Sidorenko is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Nikolay Rybikov
- Match Dinamo St Petersburg caught on 89 minutes
- Match Vladislav Shepelev rescues a point for Dinamo St Petersburg