The Rubin Post
Squad26 Apr 2027
Daler Kuzyaev 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 Rubin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market26 Apr 2027
Rubin promote Mark Balabanov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mark Balabanov 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.
Market26 Apr 2027
Rubin promote Luka Mamaev from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luka Mamaev 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.
Market26 Apr 2027
One of our own: Evgeniy Toporov joins the Rubin first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Evgeniy Toporov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Bogdan Jočić 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 dugout26 Apr 2027
Flávio Ramos has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Rubin will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
Bogdan Jočić asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market26 Apr 2027
The Jacques Siwe story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Jacques Siwe signs something — a contract at Rubin or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
Evgeny Staver has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Evgeny Staver has written the date down.
In brief
- Squad Tiago Caballero finally belongs at Rubin
- Squad The training reports on Kelly Saravanan are not good
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Yegor Teslenko