Simon Brown

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Dinamo Makhachkala
26 Jul 2043
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885 Edition

The Dinamo Makhachkala Gazette

13 Jul 2043
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad13 Jul 2043

Alessandro Vilardi damages knee ligaments — 51 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 51 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.

Market13 Jul 2043

Edoardo Mancini has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Makhachkala they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad13 Jul 2043

Diogo Borges is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad13 Jul 2043

Words at Dinamo Makhachkala training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergio Gómez 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.

Boardroom13 Jul 2043

Wages eat 201% of everything Dinamo Makhachkala earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad13 Jul 2043

Alessandro Vilardi 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.

In brief

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857 Edition

The Dinamo Makhachkala Gazette

29 Dec 2042
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad29 Dec 2042

A knee injury of the worst kind for Miro

15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo Makhachkala lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad29 Dec 2042

Simon Brown keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dinamo Makhachkala may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market29 Dec 2042

Miro asks to leave Dinamo Makhachkala

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad29 Dec 2042

Mohammad Javad Hosseinnejad 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 Dinamo Makhachkala this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad29 Dec 2042

Jan Đapo 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.

Match27 Dec 2042

Yenisey take the points off Dinamo Makhachkala

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

824 Edition

The Dinamo Makhachkala Gazette

12 May 2042
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces12 May 2042

Anger at Dinamo Makhachkala spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Boardroom12 May 2042

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Dinamo Makhachkala

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad12 May 2042

Jan Đapo 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 Dinamo Makhachkala this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad12 May 2042

Words at Dinamo Makhachkala training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdula Bagamaev 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.

Boardroom12 May 2042

213% of the income goes out in wages at Dinamo Makhachkala

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 May 2042

Simon Brown is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Dinamo Makhachkala has been clear about where Simon Brown stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

804 Edition

The Dinamo Makhachkala Gazette

23 Dec 2041
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces23 Dec 2041

The mood at Dinamo Makhachkala has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad23 Dec 2041

Yegor Postrigan damages knee ligaments — 84 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 84 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.

Boardroom23 Dec 2041

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Dinamo Makhachkala

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Match21 Dec 2041

No end in sight to Dinamo Makhachkala's wait for a win

10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dinamo Makhachkala has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad23 Dec 2041

Tempers go at Dinamo Makhachkala

Mohammad Javad Hosseinnejad 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.

Match21 Dec 2041

Yenisey take the points off Dinamo Makhachkala

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad23 Dec 2041

Words at Dinamo Makhachkala training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jan Đapo 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.

Boardroom23 Dec 2041

184% of the income goes out in wages at Dinamo Makhachkala

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.

Player ratings23 Dec 2041

Nobody could get near Edoardo Mancini

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief