The Torpedo Vladimir Sentinel
Boardroom21 Jul 2031
Viktor Bessonov is out at Torpedo Vladimir
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Squad21 Jul 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alexander Elyounoussi
67 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torpedo Vladimir lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom21 Jul 2031
Torpedo Vladimir have nobody left to take training
Not an interim appointment — an institution with an empty coaching office. Somebody unfamiliar will run the sessions this week, and the question of how a club gets into this state is one the board will be asked and will not answer.
Boardroom21 Jul 2031
Interim Coach steps up at Torpedo Vladimir for now
“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.
Player ratings21 Jul 2031
Pyotr Timofeyev beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match19 Jul 2031
5 matches without a win for Torpedo Vladimir
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Torpedo Vladimir are no longer polite ones.
Transfer targets21 Jul 2031
Trygve Alsvik Lygren will not be coming to Torpedo Vladimir
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Volga is saying, and nobody at Torpedo Vladimir is enjoying the guessing.
Boardroom21 Jul 2031
Graduation day at Torpedo Vladimir
8 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Transfer targets21 Jul 2031
Door shut on Vyacheslav Gordienko
Torpedo Vladimir asked and Dinamo Makhachkala said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- Match Torpedo Vladimir come up short against Cherepovets
- Market Aleksei Skvortsov steps up from the Torpedo Vladimir academy
- Market One of our own: Ilya Komarov joins the Torpedo Vladimir first team