Ivan Cheryshev

Central Defender - Zarya Lugansk
21 Aug 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Ivan Cheryshev

100 Edition

The Zarya Lugansk Sentinel

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Boardroom

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

Back issues
32 Edition

The Zarya Lugansk Sentinel

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Mariusz Kurasiński wins it after the whistle should have gone

93 minutes played. Mariusz Kurasiński found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Neftyanik went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Market

Alexandr Yegorov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Zarya Lugansk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Player ratings

Yaroslav Sosnikhin runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Boardroom

Alexandr Yegorov signs for Kuban Holding while still at Zarya Lugansk

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Alexandr Yegorov has agreed terms with Kuban Holding for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Mariusz Kurasiński signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mariusz Kurasiński commits to Zarya Lugansk for another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Zarya Lugansk

Alexandr Yegorov 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.

Squad

Pavel Panev 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Akhmed Kumyshev

At 19 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.

Market

One of our own: Ivan Cheryshev joins the Zarya Lugansk first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Cheryshev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief