The Arsenal Tula Herald
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Edarlyn Reyes runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Daniil Penchikov damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Chaika watching Artem Arutyunov
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Arsenal Tula have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Arsenal Tula
Maxim Maximov 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Arsenal Tula see off Chelyabinsk
Three points for Arsenal Tula, 1‑0 the final word against Chelyabinsk in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ivan Ignatjev takes the honours
Marked 7.85 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Arsenal Tula had the best player on the pitch.
Market14 Sep 2026
Arsenal Tula sign Valentin Aliyev, one for the future
Valentin Aliyev is 14, and Arsenal Tula have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Artem Popov 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ivan Ignatjev is off the mark for Arsenal Tula
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
In brief
- Market The Roman Izotov talk will not go away
- Player ratings The referee tires of Alexandr Putsko