The Uralets-TS Gazette
Squad17 Jul 2028
A fracture rules Denis Makarov out for 34 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Uralets-TS will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market17 Jul 2028
Vitaly Nem 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 The request is on a desk at Uralets-TS, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout17 Jul 2028
Vitaly Nem keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Uralets-TS may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Words exchanged at Uralets-TS
Abu-Muslim Khamkhoev 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
4 academy graduates step up at Uralets-TS
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets17 Jul 2028
Door shut on Sergey Nikolaev
Uralets-TS asked and Leningradets said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Anar Panaev 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 terraces17 Jul 2028
The crowd has taken to Vitaly Nem
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market17 Jul 2028
Uralets-TS promote Fedor Grigoryev from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fedor Grigoryev 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.
In brief
- Market Uralets-TS promote Sergei Antonov from within
- Market Rodion Zubkov steps up from the Uralets-TS academy
- Match Uralets-TS see off Dinamo Barnaul