Lev Semak

Striker - Astrakhan
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Marked for Lev Semak

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The Astrakhan Herald

25 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces25 Jun 2029

Anger at Astrakhan spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Boardroom25 Jun 2029

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Astrakhan

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market25 Jun 2029

Vyacheslav Shishkin puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Astrakhan, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout25 Jun 2029

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Transfer targets25 Jun 2029

Astrakhan rebuffed over Vladislav Kalinichev

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Legion have kept their man, and Astrakhan go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets25 Jun 2029

A loan move for Pavel Radchenko is in the works

Astrakhan have made the call to Baltika. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Boardroom25 Jun 2029

Nobody arrives at Astrakhan until somebody leaves

The club is not barred from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every name linked with Astrakhan this window arrives with a name leaving in the same sentence.

Market25 Jun 2029

Yelisey Krivokhizhin linked with a move away

The name of Yelisey Krivokhizhin keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Astrakhan say nothing, which says plenty.

Market25 Jun 2029

Aleksey Petukhov leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Aleksey Petukhov leaves Astrakhan the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief

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The Astrakhan Herald

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match14 Oct 2028

At last: Astrakhan win one

23 matches without a win, and then this, against Dinamo Makhachkala 2. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Match14 Oct 2028

Ivan Kudryashov leads the rout of Dinamo Makhachkala 2

3‑0, and Ivan Kudryashov took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Astrakhan tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Market16 Oct 2028

Fedor Galochkin puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Astrakhan, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings16 Oct 2028

Both of them Ivan Kudryashov's — 8.09

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.09, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

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Squad16 Oct 2028

Tempers go at Astrakhan

Aly Tagiev was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The terraces16 Oct 2028

The crowd has taken to Lev Semak

At 16 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad16 Oct 2028

A row about effort at Astrakhan

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fedor Galochkin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings16 Oct 2028

A masterclass from Mark Polushin

Marked 8.03 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

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The Astrakhan Herald

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings29 Nov 2027

Nobody could get near Artur Karpov

Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market29 Nov 2027

Artur Karpov puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Astrakhan, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout29 Nov 2027

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Squad29 Nov 2027

Words at Astrakhan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Shilov 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.

Squad29 Nov 2027

Fedot Tikhomirov 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 Astrakhan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad29 Nov 2027

Appearance number 100 for Danila Zolotorenko

100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

The dugout29 Nov 2027

The team sheet said everything about Pyotr Terekhov

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Pyotr Terekhov.

Squad29 Nov 2027

Lev Semak stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Lev Semak and Astrakhan agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Boardroom29 Nov 2027

Belts tighten at Astrakhan

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

In brief