The Spartak Moscow Gazette
Squad6 Aug 2029
A fracture rules Luca Maiorano out for 91 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Spartak Moscow will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings6 Aug 2029
Both of them Ronaldo's — 8.30
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.30, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2029
$970.0K settles it between the clubs for Dmitry Vorobjov
Krasnodar have accepted the money. What Spartak Moscow do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market6 Aug 2029
Rotor come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Spartak Moscow did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Tempers go at Spartak Moscow
Igor Dmitriev 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.
The terraces6 Aug 2029
One of their own: Ilya Pavlov
He is 17 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match4 Aug 2029
Spartak Moscow see off Baltika
Three points for Spartak Moscow, 2‑0 the final word against Baltika in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout6 Aug 2029
Kirill Simonov faces a manager he fell out with
They have worked together before and it did not end well. Nobody at Spartak Moscow expects the new manager to have forgotten, least of all Kirill Simonov.
Squad6 Aug 2029
A month that belonged to Stepan Bogdanov
The young player of the month award goes to a 20-year-old at Spartak Moscow who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Spartak Moscow and Igor Dmitriev
- Squad Tom Lockyer signs on for more
- The dugout Yuriy Aksyonov has his say