The Nizhniy Novgorod Chronicle
Squad14 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Nikita Medvedev
There were 11 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 8 in, 4 out at Nizhniy Novgorod
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 8 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market14 Sep 2026
Alexandr Ektov’s move to Akhmat Grozny falls through
The deal that would have taken Alexandr Ektov to Akhmat Grozny has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Nizhniy Novgorod with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Nizhniy Novgorod rebuffed over Maxim Maximov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Minsk have kept their man, and Nizhniy Novgorod go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Artem Sokolov’s goal not enough for Nizhniy Novgorod
Artem Sokolov scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Dinamo Moscow, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Vadim Yashin out for 14 days
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Vadim Yashin, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Nizhniy Novgorod training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edgardo Fariña 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ruslan Shagiakhmetov in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nizhniy Novgorod this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
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 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Fyodor Devyatkin to a room that had heard them before.
In brief
- Player ratings Nikita Yermakov's mistake decides it
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Edgardo Fariña
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Nikita Yermakov's mistake