The Volga Sentinel
Squad19 Jul 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Franjo Lazar
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Volga lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market19 Jul 2027
Dmitry Kamenschikov asks to leave Volga
“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.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Marko Cvijetić: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Volga have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Kirill Folmer frozen out at Volga
This is not rotation. Kirill Folmer has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Volga is pretending otherwise.
Market19 Jul 2027
Igor Gershun has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Volga they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Volga
Vladislav Yakovlev 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.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
4 academy graduates step up at Volga
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Volga training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kirill Folmer 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
One of our own: Viktor Matveev joins the Volga first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Viktor Matveev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Volga promote Danila Polivanov from within
- The dugout No hiding place for Nikita Massalyga
- Squad Home is on Marko Cvijetić's mind