The Nosta Chronicle
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
David Kokoev, 19, steals the show — 7.71
Marked 7.71 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Emmanuel Okonji signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Emmanuel Okonji commits to Nosta for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Stanislav Irshev 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 Nosta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Nosta walk away from Mark Polushin
$60.0K was the most the club would pay and Astrakhan 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 targets10 Aug 2026
Astrakhan tell Nosta: Danila Prokopjev is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
One of their own: David Kokoev
He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nosta promote Vlad Dobrynin from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vlad Dobrynin 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Timur Shevtsov steps up from the Nosta academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Timur Shevtsov 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Matvey Zhukov joins the Nosta first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matvey Zhukov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Gavriil Medvedev joins the Nosta first team
- Squad The formation has left Vitaliy Myronenko behind
- Squad Nosta are still strangers to each other