The Rodina Sentinel
Transfer targets24 Jun 2030
Stanislav Biblyk due for a Rodina medical
Everything agreed with Orenburg, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market24 Jun 2030
Spartak Moscow come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Rodina did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Jun 2030
Tempers go at Rodina
Vladislav Samko 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.
Transfer targets24 Jun 2030
Door shut on Haris Mujanić
Rodina asked and Slovan Bratislava said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Jun 2030
Words at Rodina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Azər Əliyev 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.
Squad24 Jun 2030
Rodina lose Oleg Glushakov
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad24 Jun 2030
Danil Puzanov signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Danil Puzanov and Rodina agree another 3 years.
The dugout24 Jun 2030
The manager makes an example of Vyacheslav Purak
“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 dugout24 Jun 2030
Dmitry Markitesov knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dmitry Markitesov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Market The Vladislav Samko talk will not go away
- Market Still no ink between Rodina and Alexandr Polovinchuk
- Market Vyacheslav Purak runs his contract down