Aleksei Bykov

Defensive Midfielder - KDV Tomsk
21 Oct 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Aleksei Bykov

160 Edition

The KDV Tomsk Herald

20 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

KDV Tomsk bow out of the cup

Textilschik go through and KDV Tomsk go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings

Maksym Pietrzak runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Marçelino Mulaj 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 KDV Tomsk can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Nikita Simdyankin 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 KDV Tomsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

KDV Tomsk find a way past Rubin 2

Rubin 2 made KDV Tomsk work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Daniil Kondrakov takes the honours

Marked 7.90 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, KDV Tomsk had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

When it matters, Denis Nikonorov 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.

Squad

Sergiu Deac gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Antonio Kasalo makes his debut at 22

At 22 years old, Antonio Kasalo became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.

In brief

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157 Edition

The KDV Tomsk Herald

30 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nikita Simdyankin

Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Artem Grigorjev asks to leave KDV Tomsk

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tempers go at KDV Tomsk

Nikita Simdyankin 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for KDV Tomsk against Volna

0‑1 to Volna, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Boardroom

No signings allowed at KDV Tomsk

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

Squad

Denis Nikonorov gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

A first senior shirt for Aleksei Bykov

Every debut is a small story about the future: Aleksei Bykov, 19 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.

Squad

When it matters, Arseny Lomtev 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.

Market

Still no signature from Denis Nikonorov

5 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what KDV Tomsk could get for him.

In brief