The Mashuk Sentinel
Squad15 Feb 2027
The knee: Anzor Khutov out for 64 days
64 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Mashuk lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market15 Feb 2027
Vladimir Shaikhutdinov agrees terms with Ryazan
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Mashuk people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market15 Feb 2027
Sevada Torosyan 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 The request is on a desk at Mashuk, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market15 Feb 2027
Mashuk turn down Kuban Holding for Yegor Plotnikov
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Mashuk
Oleg Suvorov 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Kvant watching Yegor Saigushev
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Mashuk have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Mashuk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zikrula Magomedov 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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Sevada Torosyan 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 Sevada Torosyan is on it.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Ruslan Khagur asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- The dugout Magomed Musaev has been promised minutes
- The dugout Tamaz Topuria keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Nikita Yelizarov is out on the grass again