Arseny Stepanov

Goalkeeper - Dinamo Makhachkala U19
28 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Arseny Stepanov

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The Dinamo Makhachkala Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Rodina come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Dinamo Makhachkala did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 27 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Squad

Mohamed Azzi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Mohamed Azzi and Dinamo Makhachkala agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Mohamed Azzi in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Makhachkala this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

Dinamo Makhachkala spend $1.2M on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $1.2M for Denis Tikhonov, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Match

Dinamo Makhachkala come up short against Sochi

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

Squad

Houssem Mrezigue 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

Words at Dinamo Makhachkala training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Glushkov 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.

Market

Still no ink between Dinamo Makhachkala and Razhab Magomedov

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dinamo Makhachkala, another week without a signature from Razhab Magomedov.

In brief