The Angusht Post
Squad24 Feb 2031
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.
Boardroom24 Feb 2031
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.
Market24 Feb 2031
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 The request is on a desk at Angusht, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom24 Feb 2031
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 targets24 Feb 2031
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 targets24 Feb 2031
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.
Squad24 Feb 2031
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.
Squad24 Feb 2031
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 targets24 Feb 2031
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
- The dugout Sarkis Papazyan knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The Yegor Vedernikov talk will not go away
- Market Talks stall between Angusht and Daniel Grbic