The Kolomna Sentinel
Market19 Jul 2032
Jakub Grzegorzewski has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Kolomna they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2032
The paperwork begins on Sulaiman Yusuf
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Kolomna have done the hard part with Volna, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad19 Jul 2032
Tempers go at Kolomna
Nikita Chelyshev 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 2032
Graduation day at Kolomna
7 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad19 Jul 2032
Denis Samoilov 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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2032
Kolomna rebuffed over Fedor Savinov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Moscow have kept their man, and Kolomna go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market19 Jul 2032
One of our own: Zakhar Ulyanov joins the Kolomna first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Zakhar Ulyanov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market19 Jul 2032
Kolomna promote Artyom Simakov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Artyom Simakov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market19 Jul 2032
Boris Bulgakov steps up from the Kolomna academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Boris Bulgakov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.