The Yenisey Chronicle
Market26 Apr 2027
Only the photograph left for Yan Tses'
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yan Tses' will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Yenisey the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Vladis Emmersón 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Yenisey
Anzor Kasradze and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market26 Apr 2027
One of our own: Pavel Ulyanov joins the Yenisey first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pavel Ulyanov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market26 Apr 2027
One of our own: Ivan Suslov joins the Yenisey first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Suslov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market26 Apr 2027
Daniil Moiseev steps up from the Yenisey academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniil Moiseev 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.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
No hiding place for Yan Tses'
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yan Tses', and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
Rostislav Ogienko gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Rostislav Ogienko is on it.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
Rostislav Ogienko knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Rostislav Ogienko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Andrea Chukanov a promise
- Squad The penny has dropped for Sergey Aidarov
- Squad Alexandr Lomakin is fit again