The Naftan Gazette
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Naftan put Mark Wood on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market5 Feb 2029
Arseniy Skopets puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Naftan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Tempers go at Naftan
Yamoussa Camara was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Roman Kozel 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.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Artem Yashkov stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Artem Yashkov and Naftan agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Naftan count the cost of losing Ivan Palitsevich
19 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market5 Feb 2029
Nobody at Naftan has picked up the phone to Roman Kozel
12 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
$1.3M taken back off the Naftan table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Market5 Feb 2029
Matvey Susha linked with a move away
The name of Matvey Susha keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Naftan say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Market Naftan pick up Roman Kozel for nothing
- Boardroom Naftan answer back