The Kuban Holding Courier
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Stepan Cherednikov will not be coming to Kuban Holding
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Krasnodar is saying, and nobody at Kuban Holding is enjoying the guessing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Fabian Sowiecki signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fabian Sowiecki and Kuban Holding agree another 3 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $33.0K for Ilja Antsiferov
Kuban Holding have gone to Cherepovets with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Kuban Holding
Anton Polorotov 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Astrakhan tell Kuban Holding: Danila Prokopjev is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Sergey Serchenkov 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Kuban Holding promote Innokentiy Morozov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Innokentiy Morozov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Evgeni Trifonov steps up from the Kuban Holding academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Evgeni Trifonov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Denis Nikolaev steps up from the Kuban Holding academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Denis Nikolaev has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Kuban Holding promote Nil Skvortsov from within
- Squad Anton Polorotov is a square peg at Kuban Holding
- The dugout Arseny Leskov: “We have to be better”