The Akhmat Chronicle
Market8 Mar 2032
Akhmat turn down Orenburg for Marvin Çuni
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market8 Mar 2032
Only the photograph left for Artem Ismagilov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Ismagilov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Akhmat the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2032
Too dear: Akhmat walk away from Kirill Kosarev
$270.0K was the most the club would pay and Ural were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad8 Mar 2032
El Mehdi Maouhoub 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 dugout8 Mar 2032
Alexey Mironov gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad8 Mar 2032
Words exchanged at Akhmat
Vladislav Kravtsov 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.
Market8 Mar 2032
Talks stall between Akhmat and Júlio Romão
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad8 Mar 2032
A place in the month's best eleven for Mark Lebedev
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Mark Lebedev has come out of that comparison in the side, and Akhmat have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Market8 Mar 2032
Lechi Sadulaev linked with a move away
The name of Lechi Sadulaev keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Akhmat say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- The dugout Kirill Bogdanets gets picked when it counts
- Squad Júlio Romão still has not settled
- The dugout Elijah Dixon-Bonner knocks on the manager’s door