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257 Edition

The Sochi Sentinel

30 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market30 Jun 2031

Bulat Tsaliev 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 Sochi can pretend not to have heard.

Market30 Jun 2031

So close: Dmitry Radikovskiy’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Baltika moved on, Dmitry Radikovskiy reports back to Sochi, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Transfer targets30 Jun 2031

Thiago Silvero will not be coming to Sochi

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at River Plate is saying, and nobody at Sochi is enjoying the guessing.

Squad30 Jun 2031

Tempers go at Sochi

Mikhail Ignatov 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.

Squad30 Jun 2031

Pavel Gorbachev arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Pavel Gorbachev has, at Sochi, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets30 Jun 2031

Door shut on Konstantin Maradishvili

Sochi asked and Krasnodar said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad30 Jun 2031

Fedor Rybakov 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.

Market30 Jun 2031

One of our own: Nikolai Suvorov joins the Sochi first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nikolai Suvorov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market30 Jun 2031

Sochi promote Prokhor Burov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Prokhor Burov 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

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254 Edition

The Sochi Sentinel

9 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad9 Jun 2031

Aidar Khabibullin damages knee ligaments — 152 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 152 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.

Squad9 Jun 2031

Mikhail Ignatov 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 Sochi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad9 Jun 2031

Fedor Rybakov 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.

The dugout9 Jun 2031

Alexandr Kovalenko 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.

Market9 Jun 2031

Sochi and Alexandr Soldatenkov are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout9 Jun 2031

François Kamano has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Sochi 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 dugout9 Jun 2031

Mickaël Malsa 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 Mickaël Malsa trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad9 Jun 2031

No place for Nikita Nikonorov in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Sochi are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market9 Jun 2031

Still no signature from Vladislav Stepanov

1 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Sochi could get for him.

In brief