Aleksei Leskov

Striker - Torpedo Vladimir
13 Sep 2026
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Process

Marked for Aleksei Leskov

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The Torpedo Vladimir Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Tver come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Torpedo Vladimir did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Kirill Simonov

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Torpedo Vladimir have done the hard part with Fakel, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Player ratings

Konstantin Popov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A falling-out at Torpedo Vladimir

Stanislav Utkin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Krasnodar tell Torpedo Vladimir: Artem Khmarin is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

One of our own: Anton Kerzhakov joins the Torpedo Vladimir first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Anton Kerzhakov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Torpedo Vladimir promote Vyacheslav Dubrovin from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vyacheslav Dubrovin has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Aleksei Leskov steps up from the Torpedo Vladimir academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Aleksei Leskov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Maxim Vafiev

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief