The Orel Courier
Boardroom8 May 2028
Orel put Prokhor Anokhin on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market8 May 2028
Kirill Porshunov asks to leave Orel
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad8 May 2028
A falling-out at Orel
Vadim Averkiev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom8 May 2028
The owner puts $41.3K into Orel
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.
Squad8 May 2028
Vyacheslav Gordienko 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.
Squad8 May 2028
Roman Vanat wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Orel can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout8 May 2028
Igor Bugaenko without the man who signed him
Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. Igor Bugaenko was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.
The dugout8 May 2028
Arsen Agakhanov 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 Arsen Agakhanov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market8 May 2028
The Igor Bugaenko question follows Orel around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Igor Bugaenko’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Squad A season on the outside for Milan Hurier
- Boardroom Orel answer back
- The dugout The manager comes out for Kirill Porshunov