Marked for Vyacheslav Garin
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market15 Mar 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Angusht, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad15 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Angusht this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets15 Mar 2027
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Angusht will try again when the window opens; Strogino may not be selling by then.
Market15 Mar 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Angusht, another week without a signature from Vladyslav Hevlych.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ilja Vorontsov, and the manager let it.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Angusht, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Muslim Temerbiev 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Angusht would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Market15 Mar 2027
The name of Dmitry Khokhlov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Angusht say nothing, which says plenty.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Match16 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Angusht
Position 12 and 9 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.05 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Angusht
Dmitry Khokhlov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match14 Nov 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Anton Kamyshenko’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Angusht.
Squad16 Nov 2026
It is the quietest kind of dressing-room problem and the one that lasts longest, because nobody has done anything anyone can be disciplined for. 2 players sit outside all 3 groups entirely, which is the detail that tends to matter.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Leonid Artemyev kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“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.
Market16 Nov 2026
The name of Anton Kamyshenko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Angusht say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
The terraces2 Nov 2026
Anger at Angusht spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market2 Nov 2026
“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 Angusht, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Pressure builds in the Angusht boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
149% of the income goes out in wages at Angusht
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Dmitry Khokhlov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Angusht
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vitaly Nem was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Angusht, another week without a signature from Alexandr Seraskhov.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Vyacheslav Garin 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Legion, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Angusht
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Angusht are no longer polite ones.
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a goal for Angusht
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 8 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad14 Sep 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 31 in, 10 out at Angusht
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 31 arrived, 10 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Match12 Sep 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Angusht
5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rodina have kept their man, and Angusht go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vyacheslav Garin 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Dmitry Khokhlov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.