The Dinamo Kirov Gazette
Squad2 Oct 2028
The knee: Anton Volkov out for 56 days
56 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dinamo Kirov lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout2 Oct 2028
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Squad2 Oct 2028
Words exchanged at Dinamo Kirov
Evgeny Pesikov 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.
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
The owner puts $107.5K into Dinamo Kirov
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
Wages swallow 184% of the Dinamo Kirov income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
The dugout2 Oct 2028
No hiding place for Stanislav Kozlovsky
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Stanislav Kozlovsky, and the manager let it.
Player ratings2 Oct 2028
Nobody could get near Evgeny Pesikov
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Oct 2028
German Tolstoy makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Match30 Sep 2028
Bilal Bilalov rescues a point for Dinamo Kirov
It needed Bilal Bilalov to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Veles, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Ismail Dibirov asks for a word with the manager
- Squad A step back for Arturs Vanins at Dinamo Kirov