Ilya Bobylev

Central Defender - KAMAZ U19
3 Jul 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Ilya Bobylev

64 Edition

The KAMAZ Chronicle

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Ilya Bobylev out for 15 days

15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. KAMAZ lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

KAMAZ out of the cup

Tyumen ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Match

No end in sight to KAMAZ's wait for a win

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

Squad

Evgeny Zamerets is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Evgeny Zamerets: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Player ratings

Maxim Laikin pops up at the right end — 7.91

7.91, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad

A row about effort at KAMAZ

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mikhail Schetinin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Chernomorets take the points off KAMAZ

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words exchanged at KAMAZ

Andrey Semenov 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.

Player ratings

Savely Ratnikov fails from the spot

Twelve yards and the whole ground holding its breath, and it did not go in. He will put his name down for the next one, which is the only thing to do.

In brief

Back issues
63 Edition

The KAMAZ Chronicle

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ilya Bobylev damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

David Karaev 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 KAMAZ this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Mikhail Schetinin 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Artem Popov

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Artem Sukhanov knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Artem Sukhanov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Maxim Laikin talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. KAMAZ know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

62 Edition

The KAMAZ Chronicle

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ilya Bobylev damages knee ligaments — 30 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

6 matches without a win for KAMAZ

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around KAMAZ are no longer polite ones.

Market

Savely Ratnikov 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 KAMAZ can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Artur Anisimov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Artur Anisimov and KAMAZ agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at KAMAZ

Mikhail Schetinin was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout

No hiding place for Maxim Burko

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maxim Burko, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 126% of the KAMAZ 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.

Squad

Words at KAMAZ training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrey Semenov 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.

Market

KAMAZ buy the years ahead of Arseny Abdulkhalikov

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief

  • Boardroom KAMAZ counting the cost
  • Market KAMAZ and Andrey Semenov are talking past each other
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict