The Orel Courier
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Orel
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Orel are no longer polite ones.
Market14 Sep 2026
Pavel Zemskov 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 Orel can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 18 in, 0 out at Orel
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 18 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Match12 Sep 2026
Orel cannot find the net
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The paperwork begins on Nikita Savin
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Orel have done the hard part with Rodina, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Orel rebuffed over Stanislav Basyrov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rodina have kept their man, and Orel go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market14 Sep 2026
Eduard Fadeev steps up from the Orel academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Eduard Fadeev 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
Orel promote Dmitriy Mikheev from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dmitriy Mikheev has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The window shuts on the Tamerlan Dzugulov deal
Orel ran out of time with Spartak Nalchik. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
In brief
- Player ratings Daniil Arsentjev beats them one at a time
- The dugout Daniil Antonenko gets it from the manager
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Andrei Serov on the draw