The Salyut Courier
Market12 Jul 2032
Mukhamed Mizaushev hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Salyut can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2032
Salyut rebuffed over Gennady Mamonov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lokomotiv Moscow have kept their man, and Salyut go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad12 Jul 2032
A row about effort at Salyut
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dmitry Kiselev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom12 Jul 2032
138% of the income goes out in wages at Salyut
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.
Market12 Jul 2032
One of our own: Arseny Pegov joins the Salyut first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Arseny Pegov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Jul 2032
Salyut promote Foma Plotnikov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Foma Plotnikov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market12 Jul 2032
Salyut promote Maxim Radchenko from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Maxim Radchenko has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2032
Salyut ask about Platon Vasilyev
A loan enquiry to Sochi: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout12 Jul 2032
When it matters, Ilja Vinnikov 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.
In brief
- The dugout Artem Gavrilenko knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad William Torvik starts on the language
- The dugout Nicolás Marotta keeps his manager's vote