Milan Duda

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Marked for Milan Duda

284 Edition

The Spartak Kostroma Gazette

5 Jan 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market5 Jan 2032

Luigi Pedaci asks to leave Spartak Kostroma

“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.

Squad5 Jan 2032

A one-man rearguard from Anton Shitov

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad5 Jan 2032

Tempers go at Spartak Kostroma

Nikolay Tarasov 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.

The dugout5 Jan 2032

The manager makes an example of Anton Shitov

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Boardroom5 Jan 2032

Wages swallow 97% of the Spartak Kostroma income

Every club 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 it has been tried.

Squad5 Jan 2032

Milan Duda wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Spartak Kostroma know it.

Squad5 Jan 2032

6 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.

The dugout5 Jan 2032

Denis Bokov has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Spartak Kostroma will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout5 Jan 2032

A promise honoured for Aikhan Bakhysh-Zade

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Spartak Kostroma told Aikhan Bakhysh-Zade something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

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The Spartak Kostroma Gazette

3 Nov 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad3 Nov 2031

9 saves: Anton Shitov was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match1 Nov 2031

Spartak Kostroma strike at the death to beat Chaika

There were 86 minutes on the clock and Chaika had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Spartak Kostroma did not stop to explain themselves.

The dugout3 Nov 2031

Linar Khanov: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Spartak Kostroma have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad3 Nov 2031

Denis Zhilmostnykh in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Spartak Kostroma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match1 Nov 2031

Spartak Kostroma get the job done against Chaika

A 1‑0 win over Chaika, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings3 Nov 2031

A masterclass from Gleb Knyazev

Marked 8.07 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Market3 Nov 2031

A stepping stone, not a home, for Milan Duda

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Spartak Kostroma were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

Squad3 Nov 2031

A row about effort at Spartak Kostroma

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arda Buğday was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market3 Nov 2031

Spartak Kostroma buy the years ahead of Milan Duda

He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief