The Zenit Penza Post
Squad10 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from Timur Zainullin
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match8 Aug 2026
Nowhere to hide for Zenit Penza
0‑3 against Metallurg, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market10 Aug 2026
Kuban Holding come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Zenit Penza did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Yaroslav Terechev
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yaroslav Terechev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zenit Penza the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Zenit Penza agree $64.0K for Artem Meshalkin
The clubs have shaken hands with Dinamo St Petersburg; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Yaroslav Sosnikhin
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Zenit Penza have done the hard part with Nizhniy Novgorod, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Yaroslav Terechev has agreed to leave Zenit Penza for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Zenit Penza
Dmitry Korolev 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Artem Yuran
Zenit Penza asked and Volgar said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Zenit Penza
- Market Zenit Penza promote Ilya Zyuganov from within
- Market One of our own: Vasily Belyaev joins the Zenit Penza first team