The Dinamo Makhachkala Gazette
Match6 Dec 2027
Dinamo Makhachkala are in real trouble now
Position 14, 12 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market6 Dec 2027
Idar Shumakhov 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 Dinamo Makhachkala can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom6 Dec 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Dinamo Makhachkala
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Dinamo Makhachkala is running low.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Mohammad Javad Hosseinnejad in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Makhachkala this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match4 Dec 2027
3 matches without a goal for Dinamo Makhachkala
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match4 Dec 2027
Dinamo Makhachkala come up short against Zenit
Zenit left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad6 Dec 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Timur Semak
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Timur Semak has come out of that comparison in the side, and Dinamo Makhachkala have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad6 Dec 2027
No hiding place for Mutalip Alibekov
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mutalip Alibekov, and the manager let it.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Bertrand Fourrier knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dinamo Makhachkala, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Vladimir Khubulov
- Boardroom Dinamo Makhachkala pull $10.7M back off the table
- Market The Temirkan Sundukov question follows Dinamo Makhachkala around