The Saturn Chronicle
Market25 Jun 2035
Only the photograph left for Diego Corona
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Diego Corona will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Saturn the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market25 Jun 2035
Peter Hoffmann asks to leave Saturn
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout25 Jun 2035
Diego Corona frozen out at Saturn
This is not rotation. Diego Corona has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Saturn is pretending otherwise.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Tempers go at Saturn
Michel Vieira 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.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2035
Saturn rebuffed over Vladimir Ulyanov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shinnik have kept their man, and Saturn go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Pavel Zemskov 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.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2035
A loan move for Daniil Maltsev is in the works
Saturn have made the call to Amkar. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout25 Jun 2035
Felipe Tavares 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.
Market25 Jun 2035
The Michel Vieira talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Saturn know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- The dugout Yuriy Chesnokov gets picked when it counts
- Market Diego Corona runs his contract down
- Squad Carlos Rodrigues remains an outsider