Stepan Kobzev

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Marked for Stepan Kobzev

93 Edition

The Nosta Chronicle

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom8 May 2028

Nosta put Igor Sidorenko 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.

Market8 May 2028

Danil Batyrshin 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 The request is on a desk at Nosta, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom8 May 2028

An order from above at Nosta: somebody has to go

Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.

Squad8 May 2028

Tempers go at Nosta

Kirill Volkov 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.

Squad8 May 2028

When it matters, Kirill Volkov plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad8 May 2028

Kirill Volkov loses the manager who believed in him

A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Kirill Volkov's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.

In brief

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83 Edition

The Nosta Chronicle

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market28 Feb 2028

Danila Boiko is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nosta is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad28 Feb 2028

Tempers go at Nosta

Alexey Naidenov 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.

Boardroom28 Feb 2028

The numbers do not look good at Nosta

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

In brief

64 Edition

The Nosta Chronicle

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match16 Oct 2027

The wait goes on for Nosta

11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match18 Oct 2027

Nosta are in real trouble now

Position 10, 6 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Match16 Oct 2027

Nosta cannot find the net

5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Market18 Oct 2027

Stepan Kobzev asks to leave Nosta

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad18 Oct 2027

Tempers go at Nosta

Alexey Naidenov 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.

Player ratings18 Oct 2027

Nobody could get near Krystian Mucha

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

63 Edition

The Nosta Chronicle

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match9 Oct 2027

10 matches without a win for Nosta

The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Nosta are no longer polite ones.

Squad11 Oct 2027

At 18, Stepan Kobzev is already the best thing here

An average of 6.54 in a first team he is several years too young for. Nosta have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Market11 Oct 2027

Danila Boiko is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nosta is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match9 Oct 2027

4 matches without a goal for Nosta

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Tempers go at Nosta

Daniil Barinov 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.

Boardroom11 Oct 2027

Nosta counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Nosta now.

Match9 Oct 2027

Nosta come up short against KDV Tomsk

KDV Tomsk left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Alexey Naidenov gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Maxim Noskov is still paying for one afternoon at Nosta

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief