The Zarya Lugansk Sentinel
Squad26 Jun 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mariusz Kurasiński
47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Zarya Lugansk lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market26 Jun 2028
Ivan Cheryshev asks to leave Zarya Lugansk
“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.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Words exchanged at Zarya Lugansk
Mariusz Kurasiński 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.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
Dinamo Bryansk tell Zarya Lugansk: Artem Karpekin is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Words at Zarya Lugansk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Bibikov 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.
Boardroom26 Jun 2028
Zarya Lugansk are $2.1M 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.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Bruno Vizoso 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 Zarya Lugansk know it.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
Zarya Lugansk ask about Przemysław Zakrzewski
A loan enquiry to Khimik: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Boardroom26 Jun 2028
Wages swallow 88% of the Zarya Lugansk 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.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Denis Preobrazhensky
- The dugout Mikhail Beshtoev knocks on the manager's door
- Market Magomed Ramazanov linked with a move away