The Chaika Courier
Market15 May 2028
Artur Amroziński 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 The request is on a desk at Chaika, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad15 May 2028
Chaika lose Ivan Zinovyev
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad15 May 2028
A falling-out at Chaika
Stanislav Biblyk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout15 May 2028
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Loan watch15 May 2028
David Gagua wants to come home
“I did not go to Ufa to sit and watch. I want to come back to Chaika and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 15 matches say the rest.
The dugout15 May 2028
When it matters, Anton Penchelyuzov plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout15 May 2028
Yury Petin 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 Chaika, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market15 May 2028
The Stanislav Biblyk story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Stanislav Biblyk signs something — a contract at Chaika or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad15 May 2028
Rodion Semyonov still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Chaika would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
In brief
- Market Chaika put Maxim Kriushichev up for sale
- Squad Vadim Gapeev is fit again