The Dinamo Makhachkala Gazette
Market7 Jul 2031
Armen Ambartsumyan asks to leave Dinamo Makhachkala
“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.
Market7 Jul 2031
Only the photograph left for Rodion Savrasov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rodion Savrasov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Makhachkala the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad7 Jul 2031
A falling-out at Dinamo Makhachkala
Hazem Mastouri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Jul 2031
The step up is real for Maxim Kriushichev
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Transfer targets7 Jul 2031
Torpedo Moscow tell Dinamo Makhachkala: Alexandr Chupaev 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.
Squad7 Jul 2031
A row about effort at Dinamo Makhachkala
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mohammad Javad Hosseinnejad was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Jul 2031
Facundo Maldonado has improved at 29, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Boardroom7 Jul 2031
Felix Kudus will join Dinamo Makhachkala for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Felix Kudus has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Dinamo Makhachkala have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Market7 Jul 2031
Dinamo Makhachkala promote Mark Burov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mark Burov 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Konstantin Kulikov joins the Dinamo Makhachkala first team
- The dugout No hiding place for Oarabile Booysen
- Transfer targets A loan move for Salvatore Pignarosa is in the works