Savely Rogov

Striker - Spartak Moscow
12 Aug 2029
Sunday
Process

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151 Edition

The Spartak Moscow Gazette

18 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

Spartak Moscow agree $16.0K for Tom Lockyer

The clubs have shaken hands with SKA Khabarovsk; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Transfer targets

Ronaldo due for a Spartak Moscow medical

Everything agreed with Rubin, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Words exchanged at Spartak Moscow

Igor Dmitriev 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.

Transfer targets

Spartak Moscow rebuffed over Martín Ojeda

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Racing Club have kept their man, and Spartak Moscow go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Bulat Tsaliev attracts admirers

The name of Bulat Tsaliev has come up in conversations Spartak Moscow were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Galymzhan Kenzhebek is in the works

Spartak Moscow have made the call to Akhmat Grozny. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market

The shop window has Ilja Pomazun in it

Spartak Moscow have let the market know Ilja Pomazun can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

The dugout

Levi Garcia has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Spartak Moscow 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.

Boardroom

The window opens at Spartak Moscow

A month in which every rumour is possible and most of them are nonsense. The manager has a list, the board has a number, and neither is telling the other the whole of it.

In brief

Back issues
103 Edition

The Spartak Moscow Gazette

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Spartak Moscow make home a hard place to visit

20 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

4 goals for Marquinhos

The match ball belongs to Marquinhos, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Match

No mercy from Spartak Moscow

Dinamo Makhachkala will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Spartak Moscow were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

The dugout

Alexei Tolstoy: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Spartak Moscow have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

An offer of $720.0K for Igor Leschuk

Spartak Moscow have gone to Krasnodar with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

A row about effort at Spartak Moscow

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Solari was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Spartak Moscow

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Jaden Philogene

Spartak Moscow asked and Ipswich Town said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The terraces

One of their own: Igor Dmitriev

He is 23 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.

In brief