The Textilschik Herald
Squad4 Oct 2027
Igor Dmitriev damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Alexandr Ryabinkin stands alone
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market4 Oct 2027
Dmitry Usov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Textilschik they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
Fredrik Lislegaard, 18, steals the show — 7.80
Marked 7.80 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Textilschik
Ilja Klementjev 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.
Match2 Oct 2027
Textilschik come up short against Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Evgeny Steshin signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Evgeny Steshin commits to Textilschik for another 2 years.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Maxim Polyakov
“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.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Wages swallow 101% of the Textilschik income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
In brief
- The dugout Gleb Karimov answers for it
- The dugout When it matters, Maxim Polyakov plays
- The dugout Sebastian Johansen asks for a word with the manager