The Shinnik Gazette
Match20 Jul 2030
14 matches without a win for Shinnik
The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Shinnik are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings22 Jul 2030
Leon Musaev goes up and wins it — 7.63
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.63 for the rest of it.
Transfer targets22 Jul 2030
Emil Galimullin will not be coming to Shinnik
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Rubin is saying, and nobody at Shinnik is enjoying the guessing.
Squad22 Jul 2030
Leon Musaev in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Shinnik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom22 Jul 2030
Graduation day at Shinnik
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad22 Jul 2030
Oleg Lanin 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 targets22 Jul 2030
Nizhniy Novgorod tell Shinnik: Semyon Fadeev 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.
Market22 Jul 2030
Sergei Zhuravlev steps up from the Shinnik academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sergei Zhuravlev 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.
Market22 Jul 2030
Shinnik promote Yefim Yershov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yefim Yershov 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Nikolay Yefremov joins the Shinnik first team
- Market Vsevolod Kovalev steps up from the Shinnik academy
- Player ratings Anton Gurylev beats them one at a time