The Zenit Penza Post
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Emil Maiorov due for a Zenit Penza medical
Everything agreed with Ufa, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Alexandr Dementjev has agreed to leave Zenit Penza for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Riccardo Carrubba stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Riccardo Carrubba and Zenit Penza agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Daniil Kashmin 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 Zenit Penza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Zenit Penza beat the market to Daniyal Gadjiev from Cherepovets
Cherepovets will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Daniyal Gadjiev has pre-agreed a move to Zenit Penza, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on David Bolataev
Zenit Penza asked and Dinamo Vladivostok said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Zenit Penza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Evgeny Yegorov 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Rodion Kalinin joins the Zenit Penza first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rodion Kalinin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Fedor Kartashov joins the Zenit Penza first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fedor Kartashov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Dmitriy Mamaev joins the Zenit Penza first team
- Market One of our own: Radomir Ustinov joins the Zenit Penza first team
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Evgeny Yegorov