The Nart Gazette
Squad19 Jul 2027
A one-man rearguard from Andrey Sorokin
There were 6 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.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Georgy Karginov says Nart went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
Nobody could get near Ratmir Mashezov
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
No thanks: Denis Chuprunov rejects the move
Nart had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Nizhniy Novgorod, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Alexandr Olenev 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 Nart this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Too dear: Nart walk away from Cristian Ramírez
$120.0K was the most the club would pay and Lokomotiv Moscow 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.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Nart
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Match17 Jul 2027
Still nobody has beaten Nart
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match17 Jul 2027
Nart make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
In brief
- Transfer targets Nart rebuffed over Alexandr Orekhov
- Squad Amir Djumaev falls out with a teammate over standards
- Market Nart promote Stanislav Moiseev from within