The Akhmat Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
Akhmat turn down Arsenal Tula for Brian Mansilla
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Egas Cacintura stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Egas Cacintura and Akhmat agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Akhmat
Brian Mansilla 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Kirill Schetinin sends Akhmat past CSKA Moscow
It finished 1‑0, and it was Kirill Schetinin’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Akhmat.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Akhmat training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Manuel Keliano 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Manuel Keliano 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Kirill Schetinin
7.50, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Akhmat had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Market10 Aug 2026
Akhmat sign Igor Efimov, one for the future
Igor Efimov is 14, and Akhmat 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Akhmat sign Denis Shevtsov, one for the future
Denis Shevtsov is 14, and Akhmat 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.
In brief
- Market Akhmat sign German Abramov, one for the future
- Player ratings Lechi Sadulaev runs at them all day
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Júnior Brumado