The Arsenal Tula Herald
Match8 Aug 2026
Timur Melekestsev leads the rout of Shinnik
3‑0, and Timur Melekestsev took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Arsenal Tula tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Alan Tsaraev delivers — 7.80
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Alan Tsaraev scored, was marked 7.80, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Arsenal Tula rebuffed over Lucas Vera
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lokomotiv Moscow have kept their man, and Arsenal Tula go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Arsenal Tula go back to the board over Roman Denisov
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $166.9K — a club that wants Roman Denisov enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Nikita Iosifov signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nikita Iosifov and Arsenal Tula agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Arsenal Tula make their move for Roman Denisov
$160.0K on the table at KDV Tomsk. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Arsenal Tula bid $93.0K for Uroš Drezgić
The offer went to Rubin this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Arsenal Tula
Mattéo Ahlinvi 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Yakov Ilyin joins the Arsenal Tula first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yakov Ilyin 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: Aleksandr Zinovyev joins the Arsenal Tula first team
- Market Dmitri Belyaev steps up from the Arsenal Tula academy
- Market One of our own: Radomir Isayev joins the Arsenal Tula first team