Dmitry Lapin

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The Textilschik Herald

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Pavel Raspopin asks to leave Textilschik

“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.

Squad

Ilja Klementjev 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 Textilschik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Textilschik cannot sign anybody

The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.

The dugout

No hiding place for Maxim Noskov

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

The dugout

Dmitry Usov gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Dmitry Usov is on it.

Market

Maxim Polyakov linked with a move away

The name of Maxim Polyakov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Textilschik say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

Back issues
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The Textilschik Herald

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Textilschik are top

35 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.

Market

Only the photograph left for Suleiman Kirki

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Suleiman Kirki will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Textilschik the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Textilschik

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

Squad

Andrey Yevdokimov 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 dugout

Maxim Polyakov has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Textilschik will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Boardroom

Nobody arrives at Textilschik until somebody leaves

The club is not barred from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every name linked with Textilschik this window arrives with a name leaving in the same sentence.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Vladimir Malyshev

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Maxim Noskov asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

The Andrey Yevdokimov story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Andrey Yevdokimov signs something — a contract at Textilschik or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief