The Rodina Sentinel
Market21 Jul 2031
Terms done: Yegor Bolshakov is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Leningradets waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Rodina is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets21 Jul 2031
$32.0K settles it between the clubs for Vladimir Popov
Yenisey have accepted the money. What Rodina do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
The dugout21 Jul 2031
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Boardroom21 Jul 2031
Rodina tie Interim Coach down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Words exchanged at Rodina
Yordy Reyna 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.
Boardroom21 Jul 2031
Graduation day at Rodina
6 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad21 Jul 2031
A late step up for Mouhamed Diouf
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Transfer targets21 Jul 2031
Rodina rebuffed over Evgeny Markov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Baltika have kept their man, and Rodina go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces21 Jul 2031
The crowd has taken to Eduard Blinov
At 19 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.
In brief
- Market Evgeni Denisov steps up from the Rodina academy
- Market Ivan Rybakov steps up from the Rodina academy
- Market Rodina promote Vladimir Khrenov from within