Marked for Radomir Gagarin
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Danil Shatalov out for 103 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Murom will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Radomir Gagarin
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Murom lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match14 Sep 2026
Murom are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 11 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.02 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 12 in, 1 out at Murom
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 12 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ruslan Bolov. 4‑3 against Kaluga, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ruslan Bolov among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Ruslan Bolov on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Murom and Kaluga.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Philipp Dvoretskov falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Danil Shatalov out for 111 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Murom will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Radomir Gagarin damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Murom, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Murom
Denis Faizullin 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Philipp Dvoretskov falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Murom counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Murom now.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Artur Nechaev
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Murom, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Rasil Asaidulin’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Murom needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
118 days out for Danil Shatalov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Murom will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Radomir Gagarin damages knee ligaments — 34 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 34 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Murom, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Alexey Yevseev pulls a muscle — 16 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Murom this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Philipp Dvoretskov. 1‑0 against Rodina 2, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Philipp Dvoretskov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.19. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Anton Khrenov, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
126 days out for Danil Shatalov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Murom will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
41 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Murom lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Murom out
Out, 0‑1 to Torpedo Miass, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Yegor Sedov 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 Murom can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Murom asked and Volna said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Murom
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Philipp Dvoretskov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alikadi Saidov, and the manager let it.