The Volna Courier
Squad2 Oct 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Arsen Kasa
69 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Volna lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match30 Sep 2028
Volna throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with KDV Tomsk the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Volna will enjoy reviewing.
Player ratings2 Oct 2028
No sign of nerves from Elias Zemmale at 21 — 7.62
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Elias Zemmale did not need any: 7.62, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match30 Sep 2028
Still nobody has beaten Volna
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings2 Oct 2028
Denis Rakhmanov, 33, rolls back the years — 7.87
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.87 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
The owner puts $250.5K into Volna
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.
Squad2 Oct 2028
A row about effort at Volna
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kirill Bogdanets was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
Wages swallow 202% of the Volna income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
Squad2 Oct 2028
A falling-out at Volna
Andrey Putilov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Artem Abramov
- Boardroom Volna are $5.1M in the red
- Squad Artem Simakov out for 31 days