The Rubin Post
Match15 Jul 2028
The wait goes on for Rubin
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad17 Jul 2028
8 saves: Evgeny Staver was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Transfer targets17 Jul 2028
Fee done, terms next for Chinedu Geoffrey
Rubin and Krylya Sovetov have settled on $1.1M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Market17 Jul 2028
Konstantin Nizhegorodov attracts admirers
The name of Konstantin Nizhegorodov has come up in conversations Rubin were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Words exchanged at Rubin
Dardan Shabanhaxhaj 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.
Boardroom17 Jul 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Rubin
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.
Squad17 Jul 2028
A row about effort at Rubin
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anderson Arroyo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match15 Jul 2028
The goals have deserted Rubin
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Rubin can tell you which week it ends in.
Transfer targets17 Jul 2028
Rubin rebuffed over Khetag Khosonov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Neftekhimik have kept their man, and Rubin go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Match Zenit take the points off Rubin
- Market Rubin promote Artyom Devyatkin from within
- Market Alexandr Reshetnikov steps up from the Rubin academy