Leonid Belyaev

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Kvant U19
21 Jul 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Leonid Belyaev

58 Edition

The Kvant Post

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Leonid Belyaev out for 18 days

18 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kvant lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Denis Davydov 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 Kvant can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at Kvant

Nikita Baranov 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.

Transfer targets

Kvant rebuffed over Rustem Klimanov

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sevastopol have kept their man, and Kvant go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A row about effort at Kvant

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Smoroda was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Nikita Baranov

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Kvant told Nikita Baranov something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Transfer targets

Kvant try to borrow Alexandr Yegunov

Zvezda have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Kvant ask about Andrey Kulagin

A loan enquiry to Dinamo Vladivostok: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad

Ilja Zakharov named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Ilja Zakharov is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief

Back issues
57 Edition

The Kvant Post

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Leonid Belyaev

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

Match

Kvant tear Zenit Penza apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Zenit Penza, and it could have been more.

Market

Ilja Zakharov 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 Kvant, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Nikita Baranov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Kvant is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Ilja Zakharov 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 Kvant this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Khimik tell Kvant: Nikita Shulkin is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Nikita Baranov

At 23 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Vladislav Konokotin

“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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Marat Volkov

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.07, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief