Viktor Polunin

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Free Agent
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105 Edition

The Pobeda Post

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings31 Jul 2028

Both of them Magomed Nasibov's — 8.39

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.39, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Yegor Koshkin is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market31 Jul 2028

Evgeni Pronin 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 The request is on a desk at Pobeda, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Magomed Nasibov falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The terraces31 Jul 2028

Pobeda supporters have found a favourite in Anton Gurylev

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Anton Gurylev has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match29 Jul 2028

Pobeda get the job done against Rubin Yalta

A 2‑0 win over Rubin Yalta, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market31 Jul 2028

Znamya Truda expected to open talks for Muslim Shikhbabaev

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Pobeda will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad31 Jul 2028

The manager makes an example of David Gigolaev

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad31 Jul 2028

When it matters, Anton Gurylev plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

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51 Edition

The Pobeda Post

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad19 Jul 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Muslim Shikhbabaev

24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pobeda lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings19 Jul 2027

Nobody could get near Ibragim Umarov

Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match17 Jul 2027

Pobeda taken apart

0‑3 to Spartak Nalchik, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Anton Gurylev: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Pobeda have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market19 Jul 2027

Alimsultan Sultanaliev’s move to Amkar falls through

The deal that would have taken Alimsultan Sultanaliev to Amkar has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Pobeda with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Tempers go at Pobeda

Ibragim Umarov 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.

Boardroom19 Jul 2027

4 academy players handed senior numbers at Pobeda

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market19 Jul 2027

Viktor Polunin steps up from the Pobeda academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Viktor Polunin 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.

Market19 Jul 2027

One of our own: Evgeni Pronin joins the Pobeda first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Evgeni Pronin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief