Marked for Andrei Glushakov
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Crisis
The dugout30 Apr 2029
This is not rotation. Maxim Polyakov has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Textilschik is pretending otherwise.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Alexandr Ryabinkin 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.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Ilja Klementjev 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.
Squad30 Apr 2029
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Textilschik know it.
The dugout30 Apr 2029
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Vojtěch Hranoš is on it.
The dugout30 Apr 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikolay Shulzhevskiy, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Squad12 Mar 2029
Andrey Yevdokimov damages knee ligaments — 61 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 61 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.
Squad12 Mar 2029
A fracture rules Evgeny Tatarinov out for 14 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Textilschik will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market12 Mar 2029
“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 The request is on a desk at Textilschik, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout12 Mar 2029
This is not rotation. Alexandr Ryabinkin has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Textilschik is pretending otherwise.
Boardroom12 Mar 2029
No fees may be paid for anybody, whatever the squad needs. Every rumour about this club until it lifts is a rumour about a deal that cannot be done.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Words at Textilschik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ilja Klementjev 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.
Squad12 Mar 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Textilschik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout12 Mar 2029
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.
Market12 Mar 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Textilschik know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Squad22 Jan 2029
Andrey Yevdokimov damages knee ligaments — 111 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 111 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.
Boardroom22 Jan 2029
The scrutiny sharpens at Textilschik
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Textilschik is running low.
Market22 Jan 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yaroslav Makarenko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Textilschik the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout22 Jan 2029
This is not rotation. Ilja Klementjev has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Textilschik is pretending otherwise.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Words at Textilschik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Ryabinkin 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.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Andrei Glushakov 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 dugout22 Jan 2029
Vojtěch Hranoš 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.
Market22 Jan 2029
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Alexandr Ryabinkin signs something — a contract at Textilschik or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market22 Jan 2029
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Artem Dudarev may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Crisis
Squad1 Jan 2029
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Textilschik had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
The dugout1 Jan 2029
This is not rotation. Roman Yermolin has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Textilschik is pretending otherwise.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Words at Textilschik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Ryabinkin 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.
Boardroom1 Jan 2029
204% of the income goes out in wages at Textilschik
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Dmitry Usov 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.
Boardroom1 Jan 2029
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
The dugout1 Jan 2029
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.
The dugout1 Jan 2029
Victor Demjanov loses the manager who believed in him
A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Victor Demjanov's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.
The dugout1 Jan 2029
The manager makes an example of Daniil Maslov
“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.
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Crisis
Boardroom25 Dec 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Textilschik
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market25 Dec 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market25 Dec 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Textilschik they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout25 Dec 2028
This is not rotation. Ilja Klementjev has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Textilschik is pretending otherwise.
Squad25 Dec 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Textilschik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Dec 2028
Words at Textilschik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Ryabinkin 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.
The dugout25 Dec 2028
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Market25 Dec 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Alexandr Ryabinkin signs something — a contract at Textilschik or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Crisis
Squad13 Nov 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 52 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout13 Nov 2028
This is not rotation. Maxim Polyakov has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Textilschik is pretending otherwise.
Market13 Nov 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Textilschik is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Andrey Yevdokimov 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.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Words at Textilschik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Ryabinkin 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.
The dugout13 Nov 2028
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Vojtěch Hranoš is on it.
The dugout13 Nov 2028
Dmitry Usov 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 Dmitry Usov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market13 Nov 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Textilschik know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Match13 Nov 2028
Textilschik in the hunt for Europe
Position 4, 19 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Oct 2028
80 days out for Maxim Polyakov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Textilschik will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout16 Oct 2028
This is not rotation. Maxim Polyakov has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Textilschik is pretending otherwise.
Market16 Oct 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Textilschik is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad16 Oct 2028
Ilja Klementjev 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 dugout16 Oct 2028
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Vojtěch Hranoš is on it.
Squad16 Oct 2028
Andrei Glushakov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout16 Oct 2028
“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.
Market16 Oct 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Andrey Yevdokimov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Match16 Oct 2028
Continental football is in reach for Textilschik
16 points from position 5. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.