The Nart Gazette
Market3 Jul 2028
Magomed-Deni Tsutsulaev has said yes to Spartak Nalchik
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Nart have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Squad3 Jul 2028
A falling-out at Nart
Magomednabi Yagjaev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
Nart rebuffed over Roman Graschenkov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Irtysh have kept their man, and Nart go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Jul 2028
A row about effort at Nart
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ville Nilsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Jul 2028
Anatoly Gusev steps up from the Nart academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Anatoly Gusev 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.
Market3 Jul 2028
Nart promote Yaroslav Belkin from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yaroslav Belkin 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.
Market3 Jul 2028
One of our own: Eduard Ryzhov joins the Nart first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eduard Ryzhov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
Nart try to borrow Yury Petrovskiy
Volgar have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
Nart sign 3 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
In brief
- The dugout Alexandr Olenev has become a man the manager trusts
- Squad The formation has left Ionut Mihaila behind
- The dugout Nikita Tagiev knocks on the manager's door