The Spartak Nalchik Herald
Market3 Dec 2035
Kacey Gill hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Spartak Nalchik can pretend not to have heard.
Match1 Dec 2035
Nart end the Spartak Nalchik run at 9
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 9 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Squad3 Dec 2035
Words at Spartak Nalchik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Shilov 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.
Match1 Dec 2035
A bad afternoon for Spartak Nalchik against Nart
0‑1 to Nart, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout3 Dec 2035
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.
Squad3 Dec 2035
Fran Čigir makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout3 Dec 2035
Somebody else is better right now than Amir Fattakhov
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Market3 Dec 2035
Talks stall between Spartak Nalchik and Mikhail Rybalko
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout3 Dec 2035
Clément Betoubam asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Matej Coufal
- Market Simon Kocka linked with a move away
- Squad Andre Simoes moves up the pecking order