Daniel Fleury

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257 Edition

The Volna Courier

30 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad30 Jun 2031

Kirill Saraev breaks a bone — 23 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market30 Jun 2031

Daniel Fleury 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 Volna can pretend not to have heard.

Market30 Jun 2031

Volna say no — this time

The offer from Kuban Holding for Gio Zardes was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

The dugout30 Jun 2031

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Transfer targets30 Jun 2031

Fakel tell Volna: Georgy Sazonov is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad30 Jun 2031

Words at Volna training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maxim Gavrilov 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.

Squad30 Jun 2031

Words exchanged at Volna

Evgeniy Patyutko and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom30 Jun 2031

Wages eat 116% of everything Volna earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad30 Jun 2031

Too much change too quickly at Volna

5 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.

In brief

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255 Edition

The Volna Courier

16 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces16 Jun 2031

Supporters organise against the Volna board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Boardroom16 Jun 2031

Pressure builds in the Volna boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad16 Jun 2031

37 days out for Kirill Saraev after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Volna will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market16 Jun 2031

Mikhail Pykhcheev 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 Volna, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout16 Jun 2031

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Transfer targets16 Jun 2031

Volna rebuffed over Timur Kudryashov

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nizhniy Novgorod have kept their man, and Volna go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad16 Jun 2031

Evgeniy Patyutko 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 Volna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market16 Jun 2031

Dinamo Vladivostok join the queue for Ali Vafaei

Add another name to the list: Dinamo Vladivostok have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ali Vafaei. The answer from Volna has not changed — yet.

The dugout16 Jun 2031

No hiding place for Evgeniy Patyutko

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Evgeniy Patyutko, and the manager let it.

In brief

241 Edition

The Volna Courier

10 Mar 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad10 Mar 2031

Kirill Saraev breaks a bone — 135 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 135 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market10 Mar 2031

Gio Zardes has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Volna they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

The dugout10 Mar 2031

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Squad10 Mar 2031

Artur Arustamyan 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 Volna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom10 Mar 2031

Wages eat 165% of everything Volna earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

The dugout10 Mar 2031

The manager makes an example of Artur Arustamyan

“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.

Boardroom10 Mar 2031

Embargo at Volna

No fees may be paid for anybody, whatever the squad needs. Every rumour about this club until it lifts is a rumour about a deal that cannot be done.

Squad10 Mar 2031

Words at Volna training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikhail Pykhcheev 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.

Squad10 Mar 2031

Daniel Bianchi wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Volna can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

In brief

205 Edition

The Volna Courier

1 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad1 Jul 2030

Dmitry Kotov damages knee ligaments — 129 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 129 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market1 Jul 2030

Anton Novikov 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 Volna, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market1 Jul 2030

Mashuk join the queue for Anton Novikov

Add another name to the list: Mashuk have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Anton Novikov. The answer from Volna has not changed — yet.

Transfer targets1 Jul 2030

Valery Dorokhov turns down Volna

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Dinamo Moscow keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad1 Jul 2030

A falling-out at Volna

Ivan Savitskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets1 Jul 2030

Spartak Tambov tell Volna: Daniil Gurchenko is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad1 Jul 2030

A row about effort at Volna

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maxim Novikov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market1 Jul 2030

A stepping stone, not a home, for Daniel Fleury

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Volna were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

Transfer targets1 Jul 2030

A loan move for Georgy Sazonov is in the works

Volna have made the call to Fakel. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief