Mark Kalinin

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117 Edition

The Chertanovo Herald

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings23 Oct 2028

Evgeny Kovalev, 14, steals the show — 7.63

Marked 7.63 at 14, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Player ratings23 Oct 2028

Ivan Polyakov was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 26. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match21 Oct 2028

5 matches without a win for Chertanovo

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Chertanovo are no longer polite ones.

Squad23 Oct 2028

A falling-out at Chertanovo

Matvey Melnikov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match21 Oct 2028

Zenit 2 take the points off Chertanovo

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad23 Oct 2028

Mark Kalinin signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mark Kalinin commits to Chertanovo for another 3 years.

The dugout23 Oct 2028

Aleksei Mikheev faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Aleksei Mikheev after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad23 Oct 2028

Josh Edwards 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 dugout23 Oct 2028

Mark Mamonov 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.

In brief

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116 Edition

The Chertanovo Herald

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market16 Oct 2028

Arseniy Berezhnoy asks to leave Chertanovo

“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.

Match14 Oct 2028

No end in sight to Chertanovo's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Chertanovo has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad16 Oct 2028

Matvey Melnikov 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 Chertanovo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings16 Oct 2028

Ivan Polyakov was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match14 Oct 2028

Chertanovo and Luki-Energiya take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Aleksei Mikheev on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Aleksei Mikheev after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Squad16 Oct 2028

Words at Chertanovo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tom Carvalho-Norris 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.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

A promise honoured at Chertanovo

Something was said to Mark Kalinin and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Danila Ovchinnikov 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.

In brief

48 Edition

The Chertanovo Herald

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market28 Jun 2027

Vladislav Korbut hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Chertanovo can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

$180.0K settles it between the clubs for Timur Nikolaev

Dinamo Vladivostok have accepted the money. What Chertanovo do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Matvey Melnikov is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Chertanovo count the cost of losing Vadim Agafontsev

38 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Words exchanged at Chertanovo

Matvey Melnikov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

Too dear: Chertanovo walk away from Nikita Artemov

$2.0K was the most the club would pay and Avangard were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

Chertanovo rebuffed over Maid Ahmed

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Vologda have kept their man, and Chertanovo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad28 Jun 2027

A row about effort at Chertanovo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ivan Polyakov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market28 Jun 2027

One of our own: Mark Kalinin joins the Chertanovo first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mark Kalinin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief