The Sevastopol Courier
Squad11 Mar 2030
Aleksa Trajković 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 Sevastopol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Mar 2030
Mikhail Ryadno 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.
Transfer targets11 Mar 2030
Door shut on Artem Albastov
Sevastopol 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.
The dugout11 Mar 2030
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Boardroom11 Mar 2030
The borrowing at Sevastopol reaches $6.5M
Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $6.5M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.
Squad11 Mar 2030
Alexey Pipo signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexey Pipo commits to Sevastopol for another 2 years.
Squad11 Mar 2030
The formation has left Alexey Pipo behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Sevastopol will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Market11 Mar 2030
Still no signature from Konstantin Kotov
5 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Sevastopol could get for him.
Market11 Mar 2030
The Amet Dugu talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Sevastopol know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- The dugout Bulat Vatsuev knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Egor Devyatkin leaves for nothing
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Aleksa Trajković