The Kosmos Post
Match7 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for Kosmos
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Kosmos are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Kosmos lose Samir Masimov
56 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Kosmos
Samir Masimov 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
One of our own: Ivan Ignatov joins the Kosmos first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Ignatov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market9 Nov 2026
One of our own: Fedor Chekhov joins the Kosmos first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fedor Chekhov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Maxim Abramov 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Arseniy Yakovlev chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Mikhail Naumov was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Kosmos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Tarasov 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.
In brief
- Match Point won or two lost for Kosmos?
- The dugout When it matters, Yaroslav Volkov plays
- The dugout No place in the plan for Maxim Abramov