Dmitry Yevseyev

Left Forward - Kuban U19
7 Jul 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Dmitry Yevseyev

113 Edition

The Kuban Gazette

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for Kuban

0‑3 against Dinamo Moscow 2, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match

8 matches without a win for Kuban

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Kuban are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Dmitry Yevseyev breaks a bone — 15 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 15 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Jan Piasek 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 The request is on a desk at Kuban, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Daniil Melnikov

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniil Melnikov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kuban the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Kuban

Ilja Bykovskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ilja Molteninov

“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.

Boardroom

Inquest at Kuban

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Konstantin Mironov to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

Back issues
112 Edition

The Kuban Gazette

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Kuban are in real trouble now

Position 10, 6 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market

Evgeny Kovalevskiy agrees terms with Rodina

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Kuban people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad

A fracture rules Dmitry Yevseyev out for 22 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kuban will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

7 matches without a win for Kuban

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Kuban are no longer polite ones.

The dugout

Danila Smirnov frozen out at Kuban

This is not rotation. Danila Smirnov has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Kuban is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Ilja Bykovskiy 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 Kuban this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Alania take the points off Kuban

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Boardroom

Kuban agree a free transfer for Daniil Maltsev

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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ilja Bykovskiy

“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.

In brief

  • Match The half-term report on Kuban
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout A promise honoured for Rail Abdullin