The Chelyabinsk Herald
The dugout17 Jul 2034
Vladimir Tsapurin says Chelyabinsk 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.
Market17 Jul 2034
Fidel Meza puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Chelyabinsk, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad17 Jul 2034
Chelyabinsk count the cost of losing Yefim Stanislavchuk
67 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Boardroom17 Jul 2034
11 academy graduates step up at Chelyabinsk
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.
Squad17 Jul 2034
Words at Chelyabinsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Kotelnikov 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.
Transfer targets17 Jul 2034
Chelyabinsk rebuffed over Vitaly Shitov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Moscow have kept their man, and Chelyabinsk go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match15 Jul 2034
Zoárd Nagy’s goal not enough for Chelyabinsk
Zoárd Nagy scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Shinnik, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad17 Jul 2034
A falling-out at Chelyabinsk
Akhmed Djabrailov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market17 Jul 2034
One of our own: Foma Shilov joins the Chelyabinsk first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Foma Shilov 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 Chelyabinsk promote Evgeni Rybakov from within
- Market Leonid Avdeev steps up from the Chelyabinsk academy
- The dugout Yefim Stanislavchuk gets it from the manager