Thomas Dalsgaard

Defensive Midfielder - Rotor
13 Aug 2035
Monday
Process

Marked for Thomas Dalsgaard

417 Edition

The Rotor Gazette

24 Jul 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Rotor's wait for a win

12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Rotor has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Rotor

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Thomas Dalsgaard is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Tempers go at Rotor

Semyon Bobrov 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

Words at Rotor training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Sant'Anna 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.

Match

Rotor come up short against Yenisey

Yenisey left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Yegor Kuznetsov has improved at 27, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Roshaun Mathurin

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

The Ilja Safronov talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Rotor know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

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The Rotor Gazette

17 Oct 2033
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Yegor Danilkin 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 Rotor, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Yegor Danilkin 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 Rotor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Agustín Sant'Anna 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.

Squad

Roman Mikheev gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Yegor Antsiperov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Rotor sign Thomas Dalsgaard, one for the future

Thomas Dalsgaard is 20, and Rotor have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad

Jacopo Raccosta knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Rotor, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Match

Rotor draw a blank against Sokol

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Sokol defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Market

Still no signature from Vadim Tsygankov

2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Rotor could get for him.

In brief

  • Market The Said Aliev talk will not go away
  • Boardroom Rotor keep producing them