The Krasnodar Post
Match30 Sep 2026
Krasnodar out of the cup
Textilschik ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market5 Oct 2026
Diego Costa 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 Krasnodar can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Batxi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Roman Safronov is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tormena 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Krasnodar
Alexandr Chernikov 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Moses Cobnan’s goal not enough for Krasnodar
Moses Cobnan scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Sochi, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad5 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Alexandr Koryakin
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Koryakin, and the manager let it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Moses Cobnan was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.29. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Boardroom Nobody left the Krasnodar dressing room in a hurry
- Market The Alexandr Chernikov story refuses to die
- Player ratings Dmitry Vorobjov changes it off the bench