The Tver Courier
Match22 Sep 2029
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.
Market24 Sep 2029
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.
Market24 Sep 2029
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 ratings24 Sep 2029
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.
Squad24 Sep 2029
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.
Squad24 Sep 2029
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.
Match22 Sep 2029
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.
Squad24 Sep 2029
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.
Squad24 Sep 2029
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
- Market The Anton Khomyakov story refuses to die
- Market Still no signature from Yegor Dorofeev
- Boardroom The Tver production line keeps running