The Arsenal Tula 2 Post
Squad15 Jul 2030
A knee injury of the worst kind for Timur Kim
128 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Arsenal Tula 2 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market15 Jul 2030
Tikhon Alenin has said yes to Luki-Energiya
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Arsenal Tula 2 have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market15 Jul 2030
Maksym Savchuk is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Arsenal Tula 2 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad15 Jul 2030
Richard Yeboah pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad15 Jul 2030
Fabrizio Fazzolari falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad15 Jul 2030
Arsenal Tula 2 count the cost of losing Patrick Dost
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- The dugout Fabrizio Fazzolari asks for a word with the manager
- Market Timur Kim linked with a move away
- Market Still no signature from Tim Malen
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: Rodina M at home