The KAMAZ Chronicle
Player ratings23 Sep 2030
A brace, and Nikita Saltykov takes the afternoon — 9.88
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nikita Saltykov provided it, and the 9.88 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad23 Sep 2030
A fracture rules Yaroslav Demchenko out for 41 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason KAMAZ will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market23 Sep 2030
Kirill Stepanov puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at KAMAZ, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match21 Sep 2030
4 matches without a win for KAMAZ
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around KAMAZ are no longer polite ones.
Market23 Sep 2030
German Garin has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around KAMAZ they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad23 Sep 2030
Tempers go at KAMAZ
Boris Palacios 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.
Squad23 Sep 2030
Rashad Nadirov gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Rashad Nadirov has just signed for KAMAZ, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad23 Sep 2030
Words at KAMAZ training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Yefremov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match21 Sep 2030
Nikita Saltykov rescues a point for KAMAZ
It needed Nikita Saltykov to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Neftekhimik, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- Market KAMAZ sign Martin Sappinen, one for the future
- Market KAMAZ buy the years ahead of Sandro Testa
- Player ratings Kirill Stepanov never got going