The Arsenal Tula 2 Post
The terraces4 Sep 2028
Anger at Arsenal Tula 2 spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad4 Sep 2028
A fracture rules Danil Vasilyev out for 20 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Arsenal Tula 2 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market4 Sep 2028
Jean Charlies Bebe puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Arsenal Tula 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market4 Sep 2028
Rodion Denisov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Arsenal Tula 2 they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Roman Izotov 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 Arsenal Tula 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Words at Arsenal Tula 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Danil Pyatibratov 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.
The dugout4 Sep 2028
No hiding place for Grigory Ladin
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Grigory Ladin, and the manager let it.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Ivan Ovsyankin signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ivan Ovsyankin commits to Arsenal Tula 2 for another 2 years.
The dugout4 Sep 2028
Roman Izotov dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- The dugout Alexey Kolyshev knocks on the manager’s door
- Market No place for Yegor Trifonov in the plan
- Looking ahead Timur Kim goes back to face Ryazan