Gleb Rybakov

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Free Agent
12 May 2029
Saturday
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Marked for Gleb Rybakov

89 Edition

The Kuban Holding Courier

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Kuban Holding tear Sevastopol apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Sevastopol, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

Both of them Radislav Veselovskiy's — 8.92

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.92, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

6 saves: Vladimir Malyshev was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Gleb Rybakov puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kuban Holding, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A falling-out at Kuban Holding

Sergey Serchenkov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Malik Jamai frozen out at Kuban Holding

This is not rotation. Malik Jamai has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Kuban Holding is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Words at Kuban Holding training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michał Wcisło 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.

The terraces

Kuban Holding supporters have found a favourite in Radislav Veselovskiy

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Radislav Veselovskiy has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

Sergey Serchenkov in the eights

A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

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84 Edition

The Kuban Holding Courier

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Kuban Holding put German Sokolov on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Match

Kuban Holding run riot against Nart

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Match

Kuban Holding are in real trouble now

Position 18, 25 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Player ratings

A brace, and Radislav Veselovskiy takes the afternoon — 8.66

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Radislav Veselovskiy provided it, and the 8.66 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Gleb Rybakov hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kuban Holding can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Sergey Serchenkov stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Sergey Serchenkov and Kuban Holding agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Kuban Holding

Arseny Medvedev 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.

Boardroom

The owner puts $176.4K into Kuban Holding

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Squad

Words at Kuban Holding training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michał Wcisło 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.

In brief

56 Edition

The Kuban Holding Courier

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Kuban Holding bow out of the cup

Uralets-TS go through and Kuban Holding go home, 0‑8 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Match

No end in sight to Kuban Holding's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kuban Holding has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Sergey Kopylov stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

The terraces

A cup hiding at Uralets-TS leaves Kuban Holding explaining themselves

0-8, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.

Player ratings

Radislav Veselovskiy, 20, steals the show — 7.66

Marked 7.66 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Dmitry Mikhailov

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Dmitry Marinchenko puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kuban Holding, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

8 goals as Kuban Holding and Uralets-TS go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Kuban Holding and Uralets-TS, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Player ratings

Gleb Rybakov did the work nobody counts — 6.82

13 combined actions and 6.82. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

In brief