Marked for Ryan Timber
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Steady
Market22 Aug 2039
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Yenisey 2 can pretend not to have heard.
Squad22 Aug 2039
Daniel Fleury: 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.” Yenisey 2 have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad22 Aug 2039
Rafael Jesus 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 Yenisey 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match20 Aug 2039
Kosmos left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad22 Aug 2039
The manager makes an example of Ryan Timber
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad22 Aug 2039
Yevhen Sydorchuk dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Match6 Aug 2039
Yenisey 2 win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. Cherepovets will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad8 Aug 2039
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Halid Alghoul and Yenisey 2 agree another 3 years.
Squad8 Aug 2039
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Yenisey 2 know it.
Match6 Aug 2039
Three points for Yenisey 2, 2‑1 the final word against Cherepovets in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad8 Aug 2039
Martí Moreno gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad8 Aug 2039
A month that belonged to Martí Moreno
The young player of the month award goes to a 21-year-old at Yenisey 2 who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
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Steady
Market25 Jul 2039
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Yenisey 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Jul 2039
Liubomyr Kuzyk 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.
The terraces25 Jul 2039
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Martí Moreno has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad25 Jul 2039
The manager makes an example of Halid Alghoul
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad25 Jul 2039
Yevhen Sydorchuk dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad25 Jul 2039
Ryan Timber named player of the week
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Ryan Timber has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
Match23 Jul 2039
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Dinamo Vologda will be the happier side with the point.
Player ratings25 Jul 2039
Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market25 Jul 2039
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Yenisey 2 could get for him.
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Match16 Jul 2039
Torpedo Vladimir will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Yenisey 2 were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad18 Jul 2039
Martí Moreno: 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.” Yenisey 2 have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings18 Jul 2039
Two goals and a mark of 8.23 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market18 Jul 2039
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Yenisey 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings18 Jul 2039
Philipp Bodrov, 33, rolls back the years — 8.19
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.19 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
The terraces18 Jul 2039
They paid twice — for the ticket and for the journey — and got a 3-0 win for it. Away support is the truest kind precisely because nothing about it is convenient.
Squad18 Jul 2039
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings18 Jul 2039
A defender's afternoon for Rafael Jesus
Defensive actions: 14. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad18 Jul 2039
The division's best last weekend was a Yenisey 2 man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Ryan Timber was the best thing in any of them.
In brief
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Squad
Ryan Timber finally opens his account
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Player ratings
Liubomyr Kuzyk runs at them all day
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The terraces
They were still singing at the end
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Squad11 Jul 2039
Liubomyr Kuzyk 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.
Market11 Jul 2039
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Yenisey 2 know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad11 Jul 2039
Riquelme has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Yenisey 2 will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Squad4 Jul 2039
Rafael Jesus 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.
Squad4 Jul 2039
Liubomyr Kuzyk 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.
Squad4 Jul 2039
“I want to play”: Ryan Timber speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Market13 Jun 2039
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Yenisey 2 know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market13 Jun 2039
Ryan Timber runs his contract down
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Yenisey 2 money.
Market13 Jun 2039
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Ryan Timber may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Squad16 May 2039
Narek Alaverdyan 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.
Squad16 May 2039
“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.
Squad16 May 2039
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Market9 May 2039
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Yenisey 2 can pretend not to have heard.
Market9 May 2039
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Yenisey 2 they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad9 May 2039
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Yenisey 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 May 2039
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Marcel Arnautovic trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad9 May 2039
“I want to play”: Ryan Timber speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Market9 May 2039
The clock does Narek Alaverdyan’s negotiating for him
5 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Yenisey 2 could ask drops and the wages Narek Alaverdyan can ask rise.
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Market18 Apr 2039
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Yenisey 2 know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market18 Apr 2039
Ryan Timber runs his contract down
4 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Yenisey 2 money.
Market18 Apr 2039
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Philipp Bodrov may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Market11 Apr 2039
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Zsombor Liziczay will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Yenisey 2 the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad11 Apr 2039
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Yenisey 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Apr 2039
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Yenisey 2 are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
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Squad21 Mar 2039
A fracture rules Narek Alaverdyan out for 31 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Yenisey 2 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad21 Mar 2039
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Fleury
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Yenisey 2 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Mar 2039
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Yenisey 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Squad7 Mar 2039
A fracture rules Narek Alaverdyan out for 45 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Yenisey 2 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad7 Mar 2039
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Fleury
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Yenisey 2 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Mar 2039
“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.
Squad7 Mar 2039
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Yenisey 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Mar 2039
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Yenisey 2 will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad7 Mar 2039
Words at Yenisey 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriele Giacalone 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.
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Squad28 Feb 2039
A fracture rules Narek Alaverdyan out for 52 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Yenisey 2 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match28 Feb 2039
Yenisey 2 are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 62 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad28 Feb 2039
Home is on Riquelme's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Yenisey 2 are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad28 Feb 2039
Ryan Timber left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Ryan Timber will call it something else in private.
Squad28 Feb 2039
Rafael Jesus 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.
Market28 Feb 2039
1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Yenisey 2 money.
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Squad7 Feb 2039
A fracture rules Narek Alaverdyan out for 73 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Yenisey 2 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market7 Feb 2039
“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.
Player ratings7 Feb 2039
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.62, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
Squad7 Feb 2039
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Yenisey 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Feb 2039
Ryan Timber gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market7 Feb 2039
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Yenisey 2, another week without a signature from Narek Alaverdyan.
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Squad31 Jan 2039
A fracture rules Narek Alaverdyan out for 80 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Yenisey 2 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market31 Jan 2039
“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.
Match31 Jan 2039
62 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market31 Jan 2039
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad31 Jan 2039
Narek Alaverdyan 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.
Squad31 Jan 2039
Gabriele Giacalone 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.
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Squad10 Jan 2039
A fracture rules Narek Alaverdyan out for 101 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Yenisey 2 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings10 Jan 2039
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Jan 2039
Words at Yenisey 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriele Giacalone 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.