The Leningradets Chronicle
Market22 Feb 2027
Terms done: Gennady Kiselev is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Nosta waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Leningradets is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market22 Feb 2027
Matvey Pershin asks to leave Leningradets
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market22 Feb 2027
Leningradets say no — this time
The offer from Volna for Danila Kozlov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Leningradets
Alexey Kuznetsov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market22 Feb 2027
Dinamo St Petersburg expected to open talks for Sergey Nikolaev
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Leningradets will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Leningradets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergey Nikolaev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
184% of the income goes out in wages at Leningradets
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Roman Kudryavtsev gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Maxim Bachinskiy knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Leningradets, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- The dugout Yegor Smirnov has been promised minutes
- Squad Dmitri Bykov back in training