Dmitriy Ragulin

Striker - Zenit Penza U19
1 Jan 2030
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Process

Marked for Dmitriy Ragulin

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The Zenit Penza Post

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Riccardo Carrubba out for 16 days

16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Zenit Penza lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

Maksim Korotkov says Zenit Penza went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 3 signed and 4 gone

That is the business done at Zenit Penza until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market

Mikhail Emelyanov has one foot out of the door

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

The dugout

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Transfer targets

Door shut on Nikita Zavjalov

Zenit Penza asked and Murom said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words exchanged at Zenit Penza

Kirill Pluzhnikov 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Alexandr Dementjev 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.

Market

The Wojciech Szafranek story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Wojciech Szafranek signs something — a contract at Zenit Penza or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

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81 Edition

The Zenit Penza Post

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Riccardo Carrubba

30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Zenit Penza lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout

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Transfer targets

Door shut on Andrey Kulagin

Zenit Penza asked and Dinamo Vladivostok said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words exchanged at Zenit Penza

Yaroslav Terechev 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.

Market

Miroslav Belov steps up from the Zenit Penza academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Miroslav Belov 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.

Market

One of our own: Vladimir Pronin joins the Zenit Penza first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vladimir Pronin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Dmitriy Ragulin joins the Zenit Penza first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dmitriy Ragulin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout

Nikita Kolesin 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.

Boardroom

90% of the income goes out in wages at Zenit Penza

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

In brief