Alexei Ushakov

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
12 Sep 2032
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The Rubin Yalta Post

21 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Rubin Yalta 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.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Rubin Yalta

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Rubin Yalta is running low.

Market

Kirill Kon' has one foot out of the door

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

Market

Alexei Ushakov asks to leave Rubin Yalta

“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.

Boardroom

Kirill Kon' has agreed to leave Rubin Yalta for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Tempers go at Rubin Yalta

Sarmat Dzagoev 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Dmitriy Trofimov

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

Squad

Words at Rubin Yalta training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Smirnov 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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Daniil Maltsev is in the works

Rubin Yalta have made the call to Amkar. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

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The Rubin Yalta Post

26 Apr 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Rubin Yalta board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Rubin Yalta

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

Market

Hovhannes Hovhannisyan 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 Rubin Yalta can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Alexei Ushakov says Rubin Yalta went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

The run is over for Rubin Yalta

10 matches without defeat, and then Dinamo Makhachkala 2. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

Squad

A falling-out at Rubin Yalta

Sergey Tsindrik and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Rubin Yalta

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Match

Dinamo Makhachkala 2 take the points off Rubin Yalta

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Appearance number 100 for Kirill Kon'

100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Player ratings Kirill Kon' beats them one at a time
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Vyacheslav Purak