Fedor Eskov

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Kvant U19
8 Feb 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Fedor Eskov

43 Edition

The Kvant Post

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Anatoly Semkin 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 The request is on a desk at Kvant, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Kvant

Victor Drăgoi 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.

Squad

Maxim Timchenko 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Fedor Eskov

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

The dugout

Nikita Baranov 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 Nikita Baranov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Kvant put Yegor Pozdnyakov up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Yegor Pozdnyakov may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

Back issues
37 Edition

The Kvant Post

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Alexey Chaplygin 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 Kvant can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Meron Tal wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Kvant can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

A falling-out at Kvant

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

Squad

A row about effort at Kvant

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maxim Timchenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Abu-Muslim Khamkhoev asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

Nerves in the Kvant squad

Rouben Nguyen has been around long enough to know what the spring feels like when it goes wrong, and he can feel it. A dressing room that is frightened plays like one.

In brief