Valentin Aliyev

Central Defender - Arsenal Tula U21
13 Apr 2028
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Marked for Valentin Aliyev

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The Arsenal Tula Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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 ratings

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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