The Arsenal Tula Herald
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
Nobody could get near Stepan Oganesyan
Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match8 Sep 2029
9 matches without a win for Arsenal Tula
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Arsenal Tula are no longer polite ones.
Market10 Sep 2029
Only the photograph left for Oleg Isaenko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Oleg Isaenko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Arsenal Tula the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom10 Sep 2029
Window shuts: 29 in, 17 out at Arsenal Tula
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 29 arrived, 17 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets10 Sep 2029
Matvey Fedorov turns down Arsenal Tula
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Nizhniy Novgorod keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Rodion Plotnikov out for 29 days
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Rodion Plotnikov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Tempers go at Arsenal Tula
Igor Gorbunov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Jackie Muñoz arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Jackie Muñoz has, at Arsenal Tula, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad10 Sep 2029
A row about effort at Arsenal Tula
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oleg Isaenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Transfer targets Ufa tell Arsenal Tula: Kirill Stepanov is not for sale
- The dugout Artem Arutyunov gets it from the manager
- Transfer targets A loan move for Valentin Barinov is in the works