The Rodina Sentinel
Squad2 Jun 2031
Svyatoslav Kozhedub damages knee ligaments — 145 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 145 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market2 Jun 2031
Luke Daley puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Rodina, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market2 Jun 2031
Artyom Gorelov is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Rodina is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Jun 2031
Tempers go at Rodina
Astemir Gordyushenko 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.
Boardroom2 Jun 2031
$575.0K from the owner keeps Rodina afloat
The gap in the accounts was filled from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be grateful and to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings arrive together.
Squad2 Jun 2031
A row about effort at Rodina
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Georgy Yudintsev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad2 Jun 2031
Rodina count the cost of losing Dmitriy Pavlov
19 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market2 Jun 2031
12 months and counting on Artem Arutyunov
Still no offer on the table, and Artem Arutyunov’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
The dugout2 Jun 2031
Daniil Zhitnikov gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Daniil Zhitnikov is on it.
In brief
- Market The Georgy Yudintsev talk will not go away
- The dugout The manager makes Mattia Esposito a promise
- The dugout Vladislav Samko keeps his manager's vote