The Dinamo Vladivostok Post
Match17 Jan 2028
Dinamo Vladivostok are in real trouble now
Position 5, 14 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market17 Jan 2028
Timur Nikolaev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Vladivostok they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Words at Dinamo Vladivostok training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daur Kvekveskiri 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.
Squad17 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Dinamo Vladivostok
Valery Pochivalin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout17 Jan 2028
Dmitry Kanaev gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Loan watch17 Jan 2028
Timur Pazylov has seen enough of Dinamo Vologda
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Dinamo Vladivostok, and 0 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout17 Jan 2028
Alexey Amelin gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alexey Amelin is on it.
Market17 Jan 2028
Ilja Yurchenko linked with a move away
The name of Ilja Yurchenko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Dinamo Vladivostok say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout17 Jan 2028
Yaroslav Radchenko 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 Dinamo Vladivostok, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- The dugout The manager comes out for Dmitry Burkin
- Squad Arseniy Aliyev is fit again