The Ural Chronicle
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Timur Ayupov delivers — 7.20
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Timur Ayupov scored, was marked 7.20, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Market10 Aug 2026
Fakel watching Artem Mamin
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Ural have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ilja Ishkov 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Ural rebuffed over Lucas Vera
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lokomotiv Moscow have kept their man, and Ural go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Ural
Fanil Sungatulin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Alexandr Selikhov
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ural promote Matvey Bystrov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matvey Bystrov 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Vasily Eskov joins the Ural first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vasily Eskov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Egor Yermakov steps up from the Ural academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Egor Yermakov 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.
In brief
- Player ratings A masterclass from Martin Sekulić
- Match Ural rescue it on 92 minutes
- Squad Reziuan Mirzov has outgrown this division