Marked for Danil Shevtsov
From our football correspondent
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Squad21 Aug 2028
Danil Shevtsov damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.
Market21 Aug 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Arsenal Tula can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Spartak Moscow keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Match19 Aug 2028
4 matches without a win for Arsenal Tula
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Arsenal Tula are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Mattéo Ahlinvi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market21 Aug 2028
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Arsenal Tula have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match19 Aug 2028
Shinnik left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Words at Arsenal Tula training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oskari Raiski 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.
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Crisis
Squad14 Aug 2028
26 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Arsenal Tula lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2028
Arsenal Tula offered $24.0K; Krasnodar said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tigran Avanesyan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market14 Aug 2028
Yegor Sidorov has left for Ufa in a $41.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sochi have kept their man, and Arsenal Tula go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
“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.
Match12 Aug 2028
0‑1 to Volga, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Nikita Karmaev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
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Crisis
Squad7 Aug 2028
33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Arsenal Tula lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Transfer targets7 Aug 2028
Arsenal Tula and Krasnodar have settled on $24.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Squad7 Aug 2028
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Arsenal Tula can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Transfer targets7 Aug 2028
SKA Khabarovsk wanted more than $100.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad7 Aug 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lucas Pollizzi and Arsenal Tula agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets7 Aug 2028
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match5 Aug 2028
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad7 Aug 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 Arsenal Tula this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout7 Aug 2028
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market17 Jul 2028
The offer from Lokomotiv Moscow for Mattéo Ahlinvi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Alexandr Putsko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom17 Jul 2028
4 academy graduates step up at Arsenal Tula
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.
Transfer targets17 Jul 2028
Arsenal Tula asked and Rubin said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match15 Jul 2028
1‑2 to Chaika, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market17 Jul 2028
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Danil Shevtsov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Jul 2028
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ruslan Chesnokov 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.
Market17 Jul 2028
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Arseniy Kiselyov 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.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Words at Arsenal Tula training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ilja Sokolov 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.