The Rubin Yalta Post
Squad17 Jul 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Yakov Danilov
28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Rubin Yalta lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market17 Jul 2028
Grigory Tarnov asks to leave Rubin Yalta
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match15 Jul 2028
No end in sight to Rubin Yalta's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Rubin Yalta has to find a result from somewhere.
The dugout17 Jul 2028
Grigory Tarnov frozen out at Rubin Yalta
This is not rotation. Grigory Tarnov has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Rubin Yalta is pretending otherwise.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Words exchanged at Rubin Yalta
Danila Polshikov 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.
Boardroom17 Jul 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Rubin Yalta
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Player ratings17 Jul 2028
Nobody could get near Nikita Panamarev
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Words at Rubin Yalta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Panamarev 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.
Market17 Jul 2028
Grigory Cherepanov steps up from the Rubin Yalta academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Grigory Cherepanov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Sergey Toporov joins the Rubin Yalta first team
- Market Igor Sergeev steps up from the Rubin Yalta academy
- Squad Home is on Samuel Hasaj's mind