Danil Vasilyev

Defensive Midfielder - Arsenal Tula 2
5 Feb 2029
Monday
Process

Marked for Danil Vasilyev

110 Edition

The Arsenal Tula 2 Post

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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 The request is on a desk at Arsenal Tula 2, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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

Back issues
109 Edition

The Arsenal Tula 2 Post

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Alexey Kolyshev asks to leave Arsenal Tula 2

“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

A fracture rules Danil Vasilyev out for 28 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.

Player ratings

Danila Kartashov, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.70

A mark of 7.70 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Tempers go at Arsenal Tula 2

Roman Izotov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Alexey Kolyshev

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Roman Izotov the difference as Arsenal Tula 2 beat Metallurg

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Roman Izotov. 2‑0 against Metallurg, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Match

At last: Arsenal Tula 2 win one

5 matches without a win, and then this, against Metallurg. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Match

Roman Izotov at the heart of a fast Arsenal Tula 2 start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Roman Izotov in the middle of it, and Metallurg unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

Squad

Prosper Ibekwe 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.

In brief

108 Edition

The Arsenal Tula 2 Post

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Timur Kim

Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Rasul Mitsaev 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.

Market

Arsenal Tula 2 turn down Dugopolje for Roman Izotov

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

Squad

Danil Vasilyev breaks a bone — 38 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Rasul Mitsaev stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

The wait goes on for Arsenal Tula 2

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Real improvement from Artem Isaev at Arsenal Tula 2

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Artem Isaev is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Words exchanged at Arsenal Tula 2

Roman Izotov 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Rasul Mitsaev

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

In brief

107 Edition

The Arsenal Tula 2 Post

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Danil Vasilyev breaks a bone — 46 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Rasul Mitsaev

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Alexey Kolyshev is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market

Prokhor Krasnov 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 Arsenal Tula 2 can pretend not to have heard.

Match

No end in sight to Arsenal Tula 2's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Arsenal Tula 2 has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A falling-out at Arsenal Tula 2

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

Match

Arsenal Tula 2 come up short against Dinamo St Petersburg

Dinamo St Petersburg left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Alexey Kolyshev 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.

The dugout

Miroslav Kalinovsky faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Miroslav Kalinovsky after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief