The CSKA Moscow Gazette
Squad13 Mar 2028
Home is on Rodrigo Villagra's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; CSKA Moscow are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Danil Krugovoy 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 CSKA Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market13 Mar 2028
German Obukhov steps up from the CSKA Moscow academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. German Obukhov 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.
Market13 Mar 2028
Sergey Gorelov steps up from the CSKA Moscow academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sergey Gorelov 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.
Market13 Mar 2028
One of our own: Timur Chesnokov joins the CSKA Moscow first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Timur Chesnokov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market13 Mar 2028
Yakov Savin steps up from the CSKA Moscow academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yakov Savin 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.
Squad13 Mar 2028
CSKA Moscow are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout13 Mar 2028
Moussa Dembélé has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at CSKA Moscow will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout13 Mar 2028
Rodrigo Villagra knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Rodrigo Villagra trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Squad A season on the outside for Ángelo Preciado
- Loan watch Mohamed Azzi first choice at CS Constantine
- Boardroom The CSKA Moscow academy earns its keep