The Spartak Kostroma Gazette
Market10 May 2027
Only the photograph left for Denis Zhilmostnykh
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Denis Zhilmostnykh will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Spartak Kostroma the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad10 May 2027
Amur Kalmykov 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 Spartak Kostroma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 May 2027
Đorđe Pantelić 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.
Market10 May 2027
Spartak Kostroma promote Danil Goryachev from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Danil Goryachev has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout10 May 2027
No hiding place for Anatoly Nemchenko
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anatoly Nemchenko, and the manager let it.
The dugout10 May 2027
Faruk Gogić asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout10 May 2027
When it matters, Alexandr Tarasov plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad10 May 2027
Denis Zhilmostnykh has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Spartak Kostroma will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout10 May 2027
A door opens for Ivan Yenin
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
In brief
- Market Faruk Gogić linked with a move away
- Squad The penny has dropped for Alexandr Tarasov