The Zenit Penza Post
Match12 Sep 2026
A hiding for Zenit Penza
Beaten 1‑4 by Salyut, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market14 Sep 2026
Alexandr Dementjev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Zenit Penza they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 20 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Zenit Penza until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
No thanks: Alexandr Zyuganov rejects the move
Zenit Penza had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Fakel, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Both jobs done by Alexey Makushkin — 6.42
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 13 actions, 6.42, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Zenit Penza rebuffed over Rustem Klimanov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sevastopol have kept their man, and Zenit Penza go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Zenit Penza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexey Naidenov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Valery Skvortsov joins the Zenit Penza first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Valery Skvortsov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
Konstantin Gagarin steps up from the Zenit Penza academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Konstantin Gagarin 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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Evgeny Yegorov
- Boardroom Doors closed at Zenit Penza
- Market Zenit Penza and Alexey Naidenov are talking past each other