The Khimik Gazette
Market18 Feb 2030
Kirill Myrzakov hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Khimik can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom18 Feb 2030
Gleb Yakushevich has agreed to leave Khimik for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad18 Feb 2030
Tempers go at Khimik
Vyacheslav Zinkov 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.
Boardroom18 Feb 2030
The Khimik debt reaches $7.0M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
Boardroom18 Feb 2030
106% of the income goes out in wages at Khimik
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Market18 Feb 2030
Rodina M expected to open talks for Alexandr Goryachkin
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Khimik will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad18 Feb 2030
Fábio Ferreira 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.
Market18 Feb 2030
A long bet from Khimik on Timur Bobylev
He is 20, and nobody at Khimik signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad18 Feb 2030
When it matters, Francisco Guedes plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Market The Kirill Gordeev talk will not go away
- Squad Francisco Guedes has company in his position