Mark Ermakov

Left Midfielder - Kaluga
17 Jun 2029
Sunday
Process

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73 Edition

The Kaluga Courier

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Maxim Kiselev breaks a bone — 44 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Maxim Kiselev 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 Kaluga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Bogdan Boldyrev 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.

In brief

Back issues
57 Edition

The Leningradets Chronicle

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Danila Yemeljanov

Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Rajneel Singh damages knee ligaments — 54 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 54 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.

Player ratings

Artem Kulishev, 34, rolls back the years — 8.00

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.00 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match

Leningradets see off Dinamo Kirov

Three points for Leningradets, 3‑1 the final word against Dinamo Kirov in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Words at Leningradets training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Danila Yemeljanov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

No hiding place for Danila Yemeljanov

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

Squad

Tempers go at Leningradets

Mikhail Gorelishvili 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.

Market

The Denis Scherbitskiy talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Leningradets know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Player ratings

Off the bench and decisive: Nikolay Sukhanov

The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Leningradets were going nowhere until he came on.

In brief