The Khimik Gazette
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
Khimik put Vasily Yashin on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market2 Jul 2029
Oleg Trofimov 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 The request is on a desk at Khimik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Vyacheslav Zinkov stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vyacheslav Zinkov and Khimik agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Tempers go at Khimik
Vyacheslav Zinkov 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.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
$161.0K of the owner's money at Khimik
The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
No signings allowed at Khimik
The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
The Khimik debt reaches $7.0M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
Market2 Jul 2029
A long bet from Khimik on Igors Gabovs
He is 20, and nobody at Khimik signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market2 Jul 2029
Khimik sign Davide Piazza, one for the future
Davide Piazza is 19, and Khimik have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
In brief
- Squad Cavid Guseynov gets it from the manager
- Squad Oleg Trofimov knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The Kirill Gordeev story refuses to die