Patrick Jäger

Striker - Free Agent
24 Mar 2033
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313 Edition

The Volga Sentinel

26 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match24 Jul 2032

A hiding for Volga

Beaten 1‑4 by Sokol, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Match24 Jul 2032

The wait goes on for Volga

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market26 Jul 2032

Terms done: Pyotr Nikitin is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Murom waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Volga is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market26 Jul 2032

Patrick Jäger 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 Volga can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout26 Jul 2032

Aleksandr Rybakov keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Volga may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Transfer targets26 Jul 2032

Ivan Ryzhkov turns down Volga

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Ural keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad26 Jul 2032

Vladislav Yakovlev 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 Volga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad26 Jul 2032

Artur Murza 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.

Transfer targets26 Jul 2032

Krasnodar tell Volga: Eldar Guseinov 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.

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308 Edition

The Volga Sentinel

21 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom21 Jun 2032

Pressure builds in the Volga boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market21 Jun 2032

Terms done: Pyotr Nikitin is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Torpedo Vladimir waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Volga is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market21 Jun 2032

Semyon Kuzin 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 Volga can pretend not to have heard.

Squad21 Jun 2032

A falling-out at Volga

Vladislav Yakovlev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad21 Jun 2032

A move Patrick Jäger would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Patrick Jäger is living that version at Volga, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad21 Jun 2032

A row about effort at Volga

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artur Murza was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2032

Door shut on Alexei Gusyev

Volga asked and CSKA Moscow said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market21 Jun 2032

A long bet from Volga on Norbert Lisztes

He is 19, and nobody at Volga signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad21 Jun 2032

Volga are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

In brief