The Angusht Post
Market17 Jul 2028
Rohan Vaughan asks to leave Angusht
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Real improvement from Dmitry Pavlov at Angusht
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dmitry Pavlov is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market17 Jul 2028
Only the photograph left for Aleksey Balandin
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Aleksey Balandin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Angusht the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Angusht
Adam Wierzbicki was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad17 Jul 2028
A late step up for Vyacheslav Bezzubov
At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Boardroom17 Jul 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Angusht
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Match15 Jul 2028
Angusht find a way past Sevastopol
Sevastopol made Angusht work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces17 Jul 2028
Angusht supporters have found a favourite in Adam Wierzbicki
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Adam Wierzbicki has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Market17 Jul 2028
Luka Tolstoy steps up from the Angusht academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Luka Tolstoy 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
- Market Savely Rogov steps up from the Angusht academy
- Squad Aman Babakhanov gets it from the manager
- Player ratings A masterclass from Juan Pablo Curvino