Dmitriy Titov

Left Wingback - Rubin Yalta U19
11 May 2029
Friday
Process

Marked for Dmitriy Titov

94 Edition

The Rubin Yalta Post

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Dmitriy Titov breaks a bone — 20 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Only the photograph left for Artem Ntumba

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Ntumba will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rubin Yalta the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Aleksander Grøtlien Nesbakken 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 Rubin Yalta can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Alexandr Smirnov frozen out at Rubin Yalta

This is not rotation. Alexandr Smirnov has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Rubin Yalta is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Rubin Yalta lose Yegor Biryukov

38 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

A last season at home is what Eiler Aponzá is after

It is sentimental, it is completely genuine, and it is the beginning of a departure nobody has announced. The club can be gracious about it or it can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Rubin Yalta

Danila Polshikov 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.

The dugout

Danila Polshikov has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Rubin Yalta will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

Nikita Panamarev knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Rubin Yalta, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
93 Edition

The Rubin Yalta Post

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Dmitriy Titov out for 27 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Rubin Yalta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Valery Fedosyuk signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Valery Fedosyuk commits to Rubin Yalta for another 2 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Rubin Yalta

Maxim Tarasenko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom

The owner puts $39.3K into Rubin Yalta

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Squad

Words at Rubin Yalta training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Georgy Tuaev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom

Rubin Yalta are $3.5M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

The dugout

When it matters, Valery Fedosyuk 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.

The dugout

Nikita Panamarev knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Rubin Yalta, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Maxim Tarasenko story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Maxim Tarasenko signs something — a contract at Rubin Yalta or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief