Norbert Sallai

Right Midfielder - Alania
22 Aug 2029
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157 Edition

The Alania Post

30 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings30 Jul 2029

Batraz Gurtsiev runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 54. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market30 Jul 2029

Victor Nafikov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Alania they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market30 Jul 2029

Norbert Sallai asks to leave Alania

“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.

Boardroom30 Jul 2029

Victor Nafikov signs for Rostov while still at Alania

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Victor Nafikov has agreed terms with Rostov for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad30 Jul 2029

Words exchanged at Alania

Batraz Gurtsiev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets30 Jul 2029

Alania rebuffed over Georgy Rykov

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Kirov have kept their man, and Alania go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad30 Jul 2029

Anzor Amiraliev 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.

The dugout30 Jul 2029

David Byazrov 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.

Match28 Jul 2029

Alania rescue it on 93 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 93. Textilschik had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

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154 Edition

The Alania Post

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market9 Jul 2029

Alania turn down Rostov for Victor Nafikov

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market9 Jul 2029

Allon Butaev is on his way

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

Transfer targets9 Jul 2029

The paperwork begins on Fyodor Mamonov

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Alania have done the hard part with Strogino, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad9 Jul 2029

The step up is real for Magomedsalam Kuniev

At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad9 Jul 2029

A falling-out at Alania

Batraz Gurtsiev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom9 Jul 2029

Alania agree a free transfer for Andrey Bokovoy

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Transfer targets9 Jul 2029

Door shut on Khoren Bairamyan

Alania asked and Rostov said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad9 Jul 2029

A row about effort at Alania

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anzor Amiraliev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout9 Jul 2029

No hiding place for Makhach Abdulkhamidov

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

In brief