The Dinamo St Petersburg Courier
Market17 Jul 2028
Terms done: Dmitry Borodin is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Kyzyltash waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Dinamo St Petersburg is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market17 Jul 2028
Vladislav Shepelev asks to leave Dinamo St Petersburg
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout17 Jul 2028
Rizvan Umarov says Dinamo St Petersburg went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Dmitriy Yelizarov gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Dmitriy Yelizarov has just signed for Dinamo St Petersburg, and for once the answer mattered.
The dugout17 Jul 2028
Ilja Kubyshkin frozen out at Dinamo St Petersburg
This is not rotation. Ilja Kubyshkin has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Dinamo St Petersburg is pretending otherwise.
Match15 Jul 2028
Kaluga end the Dinamo St Petersburg run at 9
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 9 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Boardroom17 Jul 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Dinamo St Petersburg
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets17 Jul 2028
Dinamo St Petersburg rebuffed over Daniil Grada
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rotor have kept their man, and Dinamo St Petersburg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Rizvan Umarov 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.
In brief
- Market Dinamo St Petersburg promote Timur Rybakov from within
- Market Dinamo St Petersburg promote Matvey Borovikov from within
- Match A bad afternoon for Dinamo St Petersburg against Kaluga