The Rotor Gazette
Squad10 Aug 2026
Nikita Chagrov 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 Rotor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Ilja Safronov
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ilja Rodionov signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ilja Rodionov commits to Rotor for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Artem Simonyan 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Abu-Said Eldarushev the difference as Rotor beat SKA Khabarovsk
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Abu-Said Eldarushev. 1‑0 against SKA Khabarovsk, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market10 Aug 2026
36 months and counting on Nikita Chagrov
Still no offer on the table, and Nikita Chagrov’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Yaroslav Arbuzov was the difference for Rotor
Marked 7.91. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Market10 Aug 2026
Rotor sign Valery Fokin, one for the future
Valery Fokin is 14, and Rotor have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market10 Aug 2026
Rotor buy the years ahead of Foma Merzlyakov
He is 14, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
In brief
- Market Rotor buy the years ahead of Timofey Grigoryev
- Squad Elmir Nabiullin dropped after a run of poor form
- Player ratings A defender's afternoon for Alexandr Korotkov