The Lokomotiv Moscow Sentinel
Squad19 Jul 2027
Lokomotiv Moscow lose Zelimkhan Bakaev
65 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market19 Jul 2027
Evgeniy Lukyanov is a Lokomotiv Moscow player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market19 Jul 2027
Ivan Yermakov comes home
The shirt still fits. Ivan Yermakov is back at Lokomotiv Moscow, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market19 Jul 2027
Nikita Nikolaev comes home
The shirt still fits. Nikita Nikolaev is back at Lokomotiv Moscow, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market19 Jul 2027
Vsevolod Simakov comes home
The shirt still fits. Vsevolod Simakov is back at Lokomotiv Moscow, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Match17 Jul 2027
Lokomotiv Moscow find a way past Orenburg
Orenburg made Lokomotiv Moscow work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad19 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Fasson
“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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Andrey Mostovoy is off the mark for Lokomotiv Moscow
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Marat Atipov asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Anton Mitryushkin
- The terraces The press have found their man in Andrey Mostovoy
- Boardroom Lokomotiv Moscow spend where nobody can see it