The Spartak Kostroma Gazette
Market12 Jul 2027
Nikita Supranovich 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 Spartak Kostroma can pretend not to have heard.
Market12 Jul 2027
Terms done: Anatoly Nemchenko is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Dinamo Kirov waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Spartak Kostroma is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Spartak Kostroma
Amur Kalmykov 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.
Boardroom12 Jul 2027
Spartak Kostroma still without a manager
11 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Salyut tell Spartak Kostroma: Vladislav Faskhutdinov is not for sale
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.
Market12 Jul 2027
Timur Laptev steps up from the Spartak Kostroma academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Timur Laptev 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.
Market12 Jul 2027
One of our own: Artem Prokhorov joins the Spartak Kostroma first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Artem Prokhorov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Boardroom12 Jul 2027
131% of the income goes out in wages at Spartak Kostroma
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad12 Jul 2027
7 new faces, and Spartak Kostroma are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- Squad Words at Spartak Kostroma training over how hard people work
- The dugout Giorgy Uridia gets it from the manager
- Squad The formation has left Arseny Lavrentjev behind