The Salyut Courier
Squad8 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jordy Thomassen
48 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Salyut lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market8 Mar 2027
Jordy Thomassen hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Salyut can pretend not to have heard.
Market8 Mar 2027
Salyut turn down Fjolnir for Maxim Kutovoy
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Salyut
Jordy Thomassen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market8 Mar 2027
Salyut promote Artem Garin from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Artem Garin 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Savely Andreev joins the Salyut first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Savely Andreev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Roman Kudryavtsev has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Salyut know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Maxim Kutovoy
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Maxim Kutovoy has come out of that comparison in the side, and Salyut have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
No hiding place for Andrey Markov
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrey Markov, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout Alexandr Konev has become a man the manager trusts
- Match Salyut in the hunt for Europe
- The dugout Dmitry Shilov asks for a word with the manager