The Znamya Truda Sentinel
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Alexandr Kukushkin
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 23 signed and 1 gone
That is the business done at Znamya Truda until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Alexey Koltakov will not be coming to Znamya Truda
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Torpedo Moscow is saying, and nobody at Znamya Truda is enjoying the guessing.
Match12 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Znamya Truda
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Znamya Truda rebuffed over Ruslan Maltsev
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rodina have kept their man, and Znamya Truda go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Znamya Truda
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marcin Wodecki was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market14 Sep 2026
Foma Ignatov steps up from the Znamya Truda academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Foma Ignatov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Aleksey Mukhin joins the Znamya Truda first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Aleksey Mukhin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
Still no ink between Znamya Truda and Dmitry Tashov
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Znamya Truda, another week without a signature from Dmitry Tashov.
In brief
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Dmitry Tashov
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Alexandr Kukushkin knocks on the manager's door