Benjamin Wilson

Central Defender - SKA Khabarovsk
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Marked for Benjamin Wilson

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The SKA Khabarovsk Gazette

9 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cup progress for SKA Khabarovsk

A 1‑0 win over Dinamo Vologda, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad

A fracture rules Alexandr Mukhin out for 58 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason SKA Khabarovsk will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

What a way to start for Benjamin Wilson — 7.27

0 on the scoresheet on his first appearance and a mark of 7.27 beside it. Most debuts are got through; this one was enjoyed, by him and by everybody watching it.

Player ratings

Arshak Koryan, 33, rolls back the years — 7.92

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.92 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Stepan Glotov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at SKA Khabarovsk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Vladislav Masternoy signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vladislav Masternoy commits to SKA Khabarovsk for another 2 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at SKA Khabarovsk

Nichita Moțpan and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The terraces

SKA Khabarovsk supporters have found a favourite in Stepan Glotov

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Stepan Glotov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Arshak Koryan the difference as SKA Khabarovsk beat Rotor

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Arshak Koryan. 2‑0 against Rotor, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

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The SKA Khabarovsk Gazette

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

52 days out for Agenor after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. SKA Khabarovsk will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout

Alexandr Mukhin says SKA Khabarovsk went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Agenor asks to leave SKA Khabarovsk

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

A falling-out at SKA Khabarovsk

Vladislav Zykh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Arshak Koryan gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Alexandr Mukhin falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Vadim Vshivkov stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Vadim Vshivkov and SKA Khabarovsk agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

SKA Khabarovsk sign Benjamin Wilson, one for the future

Benjamin Wilson is 18, and SKA Khabarovsk have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

The dugout

Danila Yezhkov gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Danila Yezhkov is on it.

In brief