Marked for Dmitriy Trofimov
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad7 Dec 2026
Dmitriy Trofimov 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Orenburg 2, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match7 Dec 2026
KDV Tomsk are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 27 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Daniil Bolshunov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Daniil Kondrakov ran the middle of the pitch — 6.60
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 14 combined actions and a mark of 6.60, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at KDV Tomsk
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikita Simdyankin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ilja Volnov and KDV Tomsk agree another 3 years.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
Nobody left the KDV Tomsk dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad30 Nov 2026
Dmitriy Trofimov damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at KDV Tomsk
Nikita Simdyankin 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for KDV Tomsk against Volna
0‑1 to Volna, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Christian Torrisi, and the manager let it.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 118% of everything KDV Tomsk earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Mikhail Kabanov after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at KDV Tomsk needed to.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one KDV Tomsk will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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Upbeat
Squad23 Nov 2026
Dmitriy Trofimov damages knee ligaments — 30 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 30 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A brace, and Maxim Palienko takes the afternoon — 8.34
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Maxim Palienko provided it, and the 8.34 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market23 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at KDV Tomsk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at KDV Tomsk can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Daniil Bolshunov 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Whatever happens, KDV Tomsk do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match21 Nov 2026
Ural 2 made KDV Tomsk work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at KDV Tomsk
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikita Simdyankin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Looking ahead23 Nov 2026
The big one: Volna come into view
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. KDV Tomsk will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.