The Rubin Yalta Post
Squad10 Jan 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ilja Ivanov
117 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Rubin Yalta lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match8 Jan 2028
Rubin Yalta make home a hard place to visit
12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
A defender's goal wins it for Rubin Yalta — 7.94
1 for Alexandr Smirnov, marked 7.94, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Market10 Jan 2028
Only the photograph left for Daniil Lopatin
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniil Lopatin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rubin Yalta the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Georgy Tuaev 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 Rubin Yalta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Rubin Yalta lose Evgeniy Plotnikov
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Beka Djanelidze left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Beka Djanelidze will call it something else in private.
Match8 Jan 2028
Honours even between Rubin Yalta and Nart
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market10 Jan 2028
The Oleg Tyulkov talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Rubin Yalta know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Danila Polshikov
- Market Still no signature from Danila Polshikov