The Dinamo Stavropol Post
Match14 May 2029
Dinamo Stavropol up to position 2
76 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market14 May 2029
Igor Vaisbein is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Stavropol is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 May 2029
Tempers go at Dinamo Stavropol
Denis Yakuba was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad14 May 2029
Nikita Kashtan falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout14 May 2029
Nikita Kashtan 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.
The dugout14 May 2029
A promise honoured for Sardor Qudratov
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Dinamo Stavropol told Sardor Qudratov something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market14 May 2029
The Dmitry Kratkov story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Dmitry Kratkov signs something — a contract at Dinamo Stavropol or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout14 May 2029
Maxim Khachatryan has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Maxim Khachatryan has written the date down.
Squad14 May 2029
Questions about Ruslan Suanov on the training pitch
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
In brief
- The dugout Mikhail Gainov keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Erdem Sinik finally belongs at Dinamo Stavropol