The Chernomorets Post
Squad17 Jul 2034
A knee injury of the worst kind for Aslan Mutaliev
117 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chernomorets lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market17 Jul 2034
Kabelo Nkgwesa 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 Chernomorets can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout17 Jul 2034
David Kobesov: 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.” Chernomorets have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market17 Jul 2034
Fedor Skok has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Chernomorets they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad17 Jul 2034
Words exchanged at Chernomorets
Kabelo Nkgwesa 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 2034
10 academy players handed senior numbers at Chernomorets
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.
Transfer targets17 Jul 2034
Chernomorets rebuffed over Yegor Postrigan
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Makhachkala have kept their man, and Chernomorets go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Jul 2034
Words at Chernomorets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matvey Kuznetsov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market17 Jul 2034
Ruslan Plotnikov steps up from the Chernomorets academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ruslan Plotnikov 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.
In brief
- Market Nazar Lobanov steps up from the Chernomorets academy
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Matvey Kuznetsov
- Boardroom Chernomorets let a promise lapse