The Nosta Chronicle
Squad17 Jul 2028
A fracture rules Jacob Onyango out for 125 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nosta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market17 Jul 2028
Davit Vardanyan 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 Nosta can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings17 Jul 2028
Maxim Khachatryan runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom17 Jul 2028
4 academy graduates step up at Nosta
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets17 Jul 2028
Dinamo Kirov tell Nosta: Ivan Veselkov is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Ondřej Sprinz wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Nosta can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Words at Nosta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maxim Khachatryan is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market17 Jul 2028
Denis Belikov steps up from the Nosta academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Denis Belikov 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.
Market17 Jul 2028
Nosta promote Denis Knyazev from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Denis Knyazev 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.
In brief
- Market Ivan Sidorenko steps up from the Nosta academy
- Match Nosta come up short against Chelyabinsk 2
- Boardroom Nosta cannot sign anybody