Alexey Kryukov

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Yenisey U19
27 Mar 2030
Wednesday
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Marked for Alexey Kryukov

120 Edition

The Yenisey Chronicle

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Alexey Kryukov breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Andrey Mazurin beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 30. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Ilya Pavlov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Yenisey is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at Yenisey

Bogdan Moskvichev 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 Yenisey

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

Match

Fakel take the points off Yenisey

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Fyodor Terekhov faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Fyodor Terekhov after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Yegor Shamov

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout

Yegor Shamov gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Yegor Shamov is on it.

In brief

Back issues
119 Edition

The Yenisey Chronicle

6 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Alexey Kryukov breaks a bone — 26 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Yenisey make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Yenisey have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Yenisey

Bogdan Moskvichev 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

Yegor Ivanov 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.

Match

Rodion Pechura sends Yenisey past Arsenal Tula

It finished 2‑0, and it was Rodion Pechura’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Yenisey.

The dugout

No hiding place for Yegor Shamov

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

Player ratings

A masterclass from Rodion Pechura

Marked 8.37 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

One of those days for Andrey Mazurin

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.25, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Yenisey at the halfway mark

Half the programme played, position 4, 26 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.

In brief

118 Edition

The Yenisey Chronicle

30 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Andrey Mazurin beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 44. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Alexey Kryukov breaks a bone — 33 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 33 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tempers go at Yenisey

Yegor Ivanov 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Yenisey

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

Match

Yenisey get the job done against Sokol

A 2‑1 win over Sokol, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Olivier Kenfack

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

Olivier Kenfack in the eights

A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

Yenisey pick somebody else ahead of Yegor Shamov

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Fyodor Terekhov kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief

  • Boardroom Belts tighten at Yenisey
  • Squad The division's best last weekend was a Yenisey man
  • The dugout Nikita Fedorov gets it from the manager