The Rubin Post
Market16 Jul 2029
Igor Leschuk agrees terms with Spartak Moscow
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Rubin people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets16 Jul 2029
$850.0K settles it between the clubs for Vladislav Malkevich
Ural have accepted the money. What Rubin do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Squad16 Jul 2029
A falling-out at Rubin
Daler Kuzyaev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Jul 2029
Real improvement from Emil Galimullin at Rubin
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Emil Galimullin is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom16 Jul 2029
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Rubin
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad16 Jul 2029
Ruslan Bezrukov has improved at 27, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Boardroom16 Jul 2029
Rubin agree a free transfer for Ekene Olisema
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Transfer targets16 Jul 2029
PAOK tell Rubin: Anestis Mythou 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.
Market16 Jul 2029
Fedor Kalinovsky steps up from the Rubin academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fedor Kalinovsky 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 One of our own: Arseny Artemyev joins the Rubin first team
- Market Rubin promote Dmitry Zimin from within
- Boardroom A promise the Rubin board did not keep