The Akhmat Chronicle
Squad17 Jan 2028
A fracture rules Mohamed Konaté out for 48 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Akhmat will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad17 Jan 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Valentin Protasov
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Akhmat lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match15 Jan 2028
Akhmat taken apart
0‑3 to Zenit, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market17 Jan 2028
Pablo Solari wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Artyom Myasnikov says Akhmat went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Pablo Solari 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 Akhmat this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Boardroom Inquest at Akhmat
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Pablo Solari
- Market The Lechi Sadulaev story refuses to die