The Krylya Sovetov Sentinel
Market14 Jun 2032
Arthur Viana 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 The request is on a desk at Krylya Sovetov, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Jun 2032
Tempers go at Krylya Sovetov
Alexandr Maximenko 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.
Market14 Jun 2032
No place for Vadim Matveenko in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Vadim Matveenko has his answer from Krylya Sovetov; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad14 Jun 2032
Krylya Sovetov lose Ivan Samoylov
23 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad14 Jun 2032
A row about effort at Krylya Sovetov
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikita Bozov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Jun 2032
The manager makes an example of Zakhar Fedorov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad14 Jun 2032
Too much change too quickly at Krylya Sovetov
10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout14 Jun 2032
Vadim Matveenko knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vadim Matveenko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market14 Jun 2032
Still no signature from Dennis Vos
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Krylya Sovetov could get for him.
In brief
- Market The Pavel Meleshin question follows Krylya Sovetov around
- The terraces The stands have heard the Dennis Vos talk too
- The dugout Mikhail Volkov has been promised minutes