The Volna Courier
Market10 Aug 2026
Volgar come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Volna did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Eyes on Alexandr Volkov again
The phone has started ringing about Alexandr Volkov again, and this time the name on the line is Rodina M. Volna are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Volna
Kirill Bogdanets and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Artem Abramov did the work nobody counts — 7.12
14 combined actions and 7.12. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
KDV Tomsk tell Volna: Denis Nikonorov is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Volna against KDV Tomsk
0‑2 to KDV Tomsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market10 Aug 2026
Volna promote Vladislav Shatov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vladislav Shatov 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
One of our own: Vladislav Konovalov joins the Volna first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vladislav Konovalov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Dmitry Rebrov
“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.
In brief
- Squad Volna are still strangers to each other
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Gocha Gogrichiani asks for a word with the manager