The Kyzyltash Chronicle
Squad19 Jul 2027
93 days out for Maxim Marchenko after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kyzyltash will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market19 Jul 2027
Vladimir Malyshev hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kyzyltash can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Daniel Pandula keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Kyzyltash may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Vladislav Sokolov turns down Kyzyltash
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Rostov keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Igor Bugaenko is a medical away from Kyzyltash
The deal with Orel is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Kyzyltash
Thomas Cristallini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Kyzyltash
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 targets19 Jul 2027
Kyzyltash rebuffed over Radomir Martynov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Kirov have kept their man, and Kyzyltash go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Kyzyltash
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Danil Kazantsev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Market Kirill Romanov steps up from the Kyzyltash academy
- Market Kyzyltash promote Igor Moiseev from within
- Market Kyzyltash promote Viktor Stepanov from within