The Rodina M Courier
Squad21 Jul 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Vladislav Skavysh
18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Rodina M lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market21 Jul 2031
Vadim Livadnov 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 The request is on a desk at Rodina M, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings21 Jul 2031
Both of them Saif Nasser's — 8.32
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.32, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match19 Jul 2031
Rodina M make home a hard place to visit
11 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Boardroom21 Jul 2031
11 academy graduates step up at Rodina M
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Match19 Jul 2031
Saif Nasser sends Rodina M past Arsenal Tula 2
It finished 3‑1, and it was Saif Nasser’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Rodina M.
Transfer targets21 Jul 2031
KAMAZ tell Rodina M: Andrey Solodukhin is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad21 Jul 2031
A row about effort at Rodina M
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Saif Nasser was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market21 Jul 2031
Fedot Lobanov steps up from the Rodina M academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fedot Lobanov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Rodina M promote Nikolay Amosov from within
- Market Dmitriy Shevchenko steps up from the Rodina M academy
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Vadim Livadnov at his very best