The Rostov Sentinel
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Rostov
Olakunle Olusegun 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.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Viktoria Plzen tell Rostov: Lukáš Červ is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match20 Feb 2027
Rostov get the job done against Akron
A 2‑0 win over Akron, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market22 Feb 2027
Yefrem Gusyev steps up from the Rostov academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yefrem Gusyev has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market22 Feb 2027
One of our own: Radomir Efimov joins the Rostov first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Radomir Efimov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market22 Feb 2027
Rostov promote Lev Artemov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lev Artemov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market22 Feb 2027
Kirill Gorbachev steps up from the Rostov academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kirill Gorbachev has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
One of those days for Ivan Komarov
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.50, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
A masterclass from Yegor Golenkov
Marked 8.32 — 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
- Squad The formation has left Alerrandro behind
- The dugout A satisfied Dmitriy Egorov
- The dugout When it matters, Vyacheslav Karavaev plays