The Kuban Holding Courier
Match17 Jul 2027
Kuban Holding taken apart
0‑4 to Astrakhan, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Anton Polorotov says Kuban Holding 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Sergey Serchenkov 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 Kuban Holding this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
4 academy graduates step up at Kuban Holding
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.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
Belts tighten at Kuban Holding
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Too dear: Kuban Holding walk away from Danil Osipov
$2.0K was the most the club would pay and Dinamo Vladivostok were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Kuban Holding training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michał Wcisło is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market19 Jul 2027
Viktor Devyatkin steps up from the Kuban Holding academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Viktor Devyatkin 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
One of our own: Vyacheslav Bokov joins the Kuban Holding first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vyacheslav Bokov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Platon Garin steps up from the Kuban Holding academy
- Market Maksim Popov steps up from the Kuban Holding academy
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Nikita Kukanov