The Torpedo Moscow Courier
Market10 Aug 2026
Torpedo Moscow say no — this time
The offer from Daugavpils for Danil Stepanov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Torpedo Moscow
Mario Ćurić 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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
One of their own: Vladislav Shitov
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market10 Aug 2026
Torpedo Moscow promote Aleksei Kozlovsky from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Aleksei Kozlovsky 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: Fedot Abakumov joins the Torpedo Moscow first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fedot Abakumov 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
Ivan Silaev steps up from the Torpedo Moscow academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ivan Silaev 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Vladislav Shitov sends Torpedo Moscow past Sokol
It finished 1‑0, and it was Vladislav Shitov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Torpedo Moscow.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Alexandr Yushin
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Vladislav Shitov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.00. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Torpedo Moscow
- The dugout Nikolay Pluzhnikov: “That is the standard”
- Squad Player of the week: Alexey Kashtanov