The Chaika Courier
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No thanks: Igor Andreev rejects the move
Chaika had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Rodina, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tom Bradshaw signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tom Bradshaw commits to Chaika for another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Stanislav Biblyk 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 Chaika this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Vitaly Dunay (Karpenko) was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Chaika rebuffed over Roman Safronov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Krasnodar have kept their man, and Chaika go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Pyotr Titov joins the Chaika first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pyotr Titov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Yakov Kobzev steps up from the Chaika academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yakov Kobzev 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Chaika promote Lev Reshetnikov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lev Reshetnikov 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Chaika promote Viktor Konovalov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Viktor Konovalov 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
- Match Chaika find a way past Chernomorets
- Player ratings Stanislav Biblyk takes the honours
- The dugout The view from the dugout