The Spartak Tambov Sentinel
Match7 Jul 2031
Spartak Tambov sink to position 13
24 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market7 Jul 2031
Alexandr Gubanov hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Spartak Tambov can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Jul 2031
The owner puts $152.8K into Spartak Tambov
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
Squad7 Jul 2031
Pavel Khodeev 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.
Squad7 Jul 2031
Home is on Valentyn Yaremchuk's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Spartak Tambov are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad7 Jul 2031
Lev Ushakov 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 Spartak Tambov this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Jul 2031
Spartak Tambov sign 4 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
Squad7 Jul 2031
Mikhail Osinov 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 Spartak Tambov, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market7 Jul 2031
5 months and counting on Gelani Khashtyrov
Still no offer on the table, and Gelani Khashtyrov’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Spartak Tambov and Fedor Bykov
- Market Spartak Tambov put Pavel Tabolin up for sale
- Boardroom The Spartak Tambov production line keeps running