The Rodina Sentinel
Squad17 Mar 2031
Matvey Burlakov keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Rodina may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match17 Mar 2031
Rodina refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 57 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad17 Mar 2031
Tempers go at Rodina
Yordy Reyna 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.
Squad17 Mar 2031
Matvey Burlakov 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.
Squad17 Mar 2031
Vladislav Samko has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Rodina will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market17 Mar 2031
Leo Goglichidze linked with a move away
The name of Leo Goglichidze keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Rodina say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Market Denis Zabolotsky leaves for nothing
- Market Artyom Shevtsov leaves for nothing
- Boardroom Rodina keep producing them
- Boardroom The Rodina board put their names to it