The Kolomna Sentinel
Squad5 Apr 2027
Andrey Kabaev damages knee ligaments — 41 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 41 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Kolomna put Arseniy Plotnikov on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Match5 Apr 2027
Kolomna sink to position 13
19 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market5 Apr 2027
Arseny Yerastov asks to leave Kolomna
“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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at Kolomna training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikhail Kanaev 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Yasson Mandzukas in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kolomna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Kolomna counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Kolomna now.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Mikhail Kanaev loses the manager who believed in him
A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Mikhail Kanaev's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Arseny Yerastov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Kolomna 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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Dmitriy Rogov
- The dugout Rauf Novruzov asks for a word with the manager
- Market The Anas Raheel story refuses to die