The Druzhba Herald
Match18 Aug 2027
Druzhba out of the cup
Amkar ended it 0‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Artur Zezarakhov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market23 Aug 2027
Vyacheslav Mitrokhin 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 Druzhba can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Druzhba
Kacper Skrobański 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Avangard join the queue for Nikolay Solovyov
Add another name to the list: Avangard have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Nikolay Solovyov. The answer from Druzhba has not changed — yet.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Asker Delok 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
7 new faces, and Druzhba are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market23 Aug 2027
Druzhba buy the years ahead of Eduard Polunin
He is 15, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market23 Aug 2027
A long bet from Druzhba on Aleksei Nekrasov
He is 15, and nobody at Druzhba signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
In brief
- Boardroom The numbers do not look good at Druzhba
- Squad No hiding place for Andrey Zhigalov
- Match Druzhba draw a blank against Pobeda