The Dinamo Vologda Sentinel
Squad8 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dmitri Aliyev
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo Vologda lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Roman Anikeev stands alone
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market8 Nov 2027
Nikita Krivoruchko asks to leave Dinamo Vologda
“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 dugout8 Nov 2027
Gleb Gusev says Dinamo Vologda 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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Dinamo Vologda count the cost of losing Anton Betyuzhnov
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Dinamo Vologda
Danila Yezhkov 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.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
The owner puts $64.7K into Dinamo Vologda
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
The terraces8 Nov 2027
The crowd has taken to Roman Anikeev
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
Dinamo Vologda are $4.2M in the red
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Anatoly Demidov
- The dugout Andrey Yakovlev has become a man the manager trusts
- Boardroom Nobody arrives at Dinamo Vologda until somebody leaves