The Uni-X Labs Gazette
The dugout4 Dec 2028
Danil Ananka frozen out at Uni-X Labs
This is not rotation. Danil Ananka has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Uni-X Labs is pretending otherwise.
Market4 Dec 2028
Nejc Bijol 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 Uni-X Labs can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom4 Dec 2028
Uni-X Labs to lose Anton Zalamay for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Anton Zalamay has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad4 Dec 2028
A move Nejc Bijol 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. Nejc Bijol is living that version at Uni-X Labs, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad4 Dec 2028
A row about effort at Uni-X Labs
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dmitriy Khalimonchikov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Tempers go at Uni-X Labs
Marjus Kola 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.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
The manager makes an example of Dmitriy Turovets
“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.
Boardroom4 Dec 2028
Wages eat 122% of everything Uni-X Labs earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Market4 Dec 2028
Uni-X Labs and David Kokoev are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- Market Uni-X Labs buy the years ahead of Enrique Cano
- Market Uni-X Labs buy the years ahead of Nejc Bijol
- The dugout Vladislav Fezhenko knocks on the manager's door