The Luki-Energiya Courier
Squad24 Apr 2028
Alexandr Kukharchuk 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 Luki-Energiya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Words at Luki-Energiya training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ilja Salnikov 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.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
Igor Shestakov gets it from the manager
“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.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
Alexandr Kukharchuk knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alexandr Kukharchuk trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market24 Apr 2028
The Ilja Mamkin talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Luki-Energiya know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Davud Şabanov wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Luki-Energiya will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
In brief
- The dugout Gennady Nikitin keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Adam Claesson has settled at Luki-Energiya