The Avangard Courier
Squad1 Jun 2043
Volodymyr Ozymai damages knee ligaments — 45 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 45 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market1 Jun 2043
Fabian Schär is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Avangard is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad1 Jun 2043
Semyon Zubov 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 Avangard this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Jun 2043
Words at Avangard training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Piergiorgio Bonanno 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.
Boardroom1 Jun 2043
Avangard cannot sign anybody
The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.
Squad1 Jun 2043
Home is on Lira's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Avangard are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
In brief
- Market Igor Rybakov placed on the list
- Market Still no signature from Matvey Lykov
- Boardroom Avangard answer back