The Metallurg Courier
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Stepan Glotov will not be coming to Metallurg
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at SKA Khabarovsk is saying, and nobody at Metallurg is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Metallurg rebuffed over Denis Terekhov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Spartak Kostroma have kept their man, and Metallurg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Metallurg
Ilnur Badrtdinov 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Metallurg promote Miroslav Kozhemyakin from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Miroslav Kozhemyakin 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Anatoly Tsaryov steps up from the Metallurg academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Anatoly Tsaryov 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Metallurg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vladislav Agalakov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Metallurg ask about Ilja Yezhov
A loan enquiry to Rubin: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Nikita Kononenko named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Nikita Kononenko is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
A promise honoured for Kirill Dontsov
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Metallurg told Kirill Dontsov something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
In brief
- Boardroom The numbers do not look good at Metallurg
- Market Zakhar Podzolkov told to find a new club
- The dugout No hiding place for Yegor Ananjev