The Rotor Gazette
Match22 Jul 2034
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.
Match22 Jul 2034
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.
Squad24 Jul 2034
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.
Squad24 Jul 2034
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.
Squad24 Jul 2034
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.
Match22 Jul 2034
Rotor come up short against Yenisey
Yenisey left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad24 Jul 2034
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 ratings24 Jul 2034
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.
Market24 Jul 2034
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
- Market The clock does Guillem Molina’s negotiating for him
- Market Rotor put Yegor Kuznetsov up for sale
- Market The trail goes cold on Nikolay Leskov