The Legion Courier
Player ratings19 Jul 2032
Jakub Zych beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom19 Jul 2032
6 academy graduates step up at Legion
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 targets19 Jul 2032
Irkutsk tell Legion: Daniil Konovalov 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.
Squad19 Jul 2032
A row about effort at Legion
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dawid Linca was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Jul 2032
Home is on Henrik Svensson's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Legion are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Match17 Jul 2032
A bad afternoon for Legion against Dinamo Kirov
1‑2 to Dinamo Kirov, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom19 Jul 2032
Wages eat 261% of everything Legion 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.
Market19 Jul 2032
One of our own: Aleksei Mitin joins the Legion first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Aleksei Mitin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market19 Jul 2032
Arseniy Fadeev steps up from the Legion academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Arseniy Fadeev 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Fyodor Ulyanov joins the Legion first team
- Market One of our own: Yefim Gorbachev joins the Legion first team
- Squad Miguel Guzmán is not the player he was