The Chertanovo Herald
Squad5 Oct 2026
The knee: Aleksei Shevtsov out for 17 days
17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Chertanovo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match3 Oct 2026
9 matches without a win for Chertanovo
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Chertanovo are no longer polite ones.
Match3 Oct 2026
Nowhere to hide for Chertanovo
0‑4 against Spartak Moscow 2, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match3 Oct 2026
9 matches without a goal for Chertanovo
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 9 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Market5 Oct 2026
Alexey Osipov puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Chertanovo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Vladimir Malyshev out for 26 days
The medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for Vladimir Malyshev, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Alexey Osipov frozen out at Chertanovo
This is not rotation. Alexey Osipov has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Chertanovo is pretending otherwise.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Ramil Gainullin was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Chertanovo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Polyakov 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.
In brief
- Squad Dmitry Kondrashov in a row with a teammate
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Zakhar Svetov
- Boardroom Nobody left the Chertanovo dressing room in a hurry