The Rodina Sentinel
Squad14 Feb 2028
A fracture rules Astemir Gordyushenko out for 69 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Rodina will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market14 Feb 2028
Artem Sokol 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 Rodina can pretend not to have heard.
Market14 Feb 2028
Artur Garibyan agrees terms with Nizhniy Novgorod
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Rodina people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets14 Feb 2028
$570.0K settles it between the clubs for Petr Kudakovskiy
Nizhniy Novgorod have accepted the money. What Rodina do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets14 Feb 2028
No thanks: Jhon Palacios rejects the move
Rodina had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Orenburg, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
The terraces14 Feb 2028
A $820.0K sale, and a town that did not want it
Artem Maximenko has gone, the accounts have $820.0K in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Market14 Feb 2028
Business is business: Artem Maximenko goes
Baltika paid $820.0K and Rodina took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Words exchanged at Rodina
Yordy Reyna 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.
Market14 Feb 2028
Spartak Moscow expected to open talks for Sebastián Arce
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Rodina will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
In brief
- Squad A move Michael Cunningham would have made for nothing
- Boardroom Pavel Solomatin will join Rodina for nothing
- Squad Nikita Kalugin falls out with a teammate over standards