Lev Kryukov

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Tver U19
9 Oct 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Lev Kryukov

165 Edition

The Tver Courier

24 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Tver

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

Daniil Alexandrov hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tver can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Nikita Lyutikov is on his way

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

Player ratings

Vladlen Skvortsov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Tver

Nikolay Abdulkin 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.

Squad

Fedor Motovilov 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.

Match

Tver and Yenisey 2 take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad

When it matters, Klim Perekalskiy plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad

Yegor Ponomarev knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Yegor Ponomarev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

Back issues
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The Tver Courier

27 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The mood at Tver has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Tver

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Tver is running low.

Match

Tver sink to position 14

7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

Yegor Bessonov damages knee ligaments — 25 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 25 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.

Market

Nikita Lyutikov asks to leave Tver

“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.

Match

Tver come up short against Dinamo Vologda

Dinamo Vologda left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Muslim Nabiev 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

No hiding place for Anton Khomyakov

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anton Khomyakov, and the manager let it.

Squad

Tempers go at Tver

Klim Perekalskiy 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.

In brief