Daniel Grbic

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The Angusht Post

24 Feb 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Andrey Orlov out for 94 days

94 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Angusht lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Angusht

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market

Andrey Orlov 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 The request is on a desk at Angusht, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 4 signed and 4 gone

That is the business done at Angusht until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets

Ignat Filonov is a medical away from Angusht

The deal with Fakel is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

Rodina tell Angusht: Nikita Zhustjev is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Viktor Fiola 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Angusht

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

Transfer targets

Angusht try to borrow Alexandr Mironov

Nizhniy Novgorod have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

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The Angusht Post

17 Feb 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Andrey Orlov damages knee ligaments — 101 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 101 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The terraces

Anger at Angusht 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.

Market

Tommaso Iacopini 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 Angusht, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Magomed Omarov due for a Angusht medical

Everything agreed with SKA Khabarovsk, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

The dugout

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Transfer targets

Door shut on Ilja Vostrikov

Angusht asked and Spartak Tambov said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Viktor Fiola 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.

Squad

Platon Sharapov 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 Angusht this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

93% of the income goes out in wages at Angusht

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

In brief