Nikolay Dmitriev

Striker - Irtysh
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481 Edition

The Irtysh Chronicle

15 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market15 Oct 2035

Vladimir Platonov has one foot out of the door

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

Boardroom15 Oct 2035

Vladimir Platonov has agreed to leave Irtysh 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.

Squad15 Oct 2035

A falling-out at Irtysh

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

Squad15 Oct 2035

Time is catching up with Islam-Bek Gubzhokov

Everybody at Irtysh saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 33 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

Boardroom15 Oct 2035

Wages swallow 338% of the Irtysh income

Every club 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 it has been tried.

The dugout15 Oct 2035

The manager makes an example of Vladimir Platonov

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market15 Oct 2035

Jonathan Russell told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Jonathan Russell has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Irtysh.

The dugout15 Oct 2035

Timur Zhirkov gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Timur Zhirkov is on it.

Squad15 Oct 2035

João Ricardo remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Irtysh would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

In brief

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476 Edition

The Irtysh Chronicle

10 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom10 Sep 2035

Irtysh close the window on a squad of their own making

9 in and 12 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets10 Sep 2035

Nikolay Dmitriev due for a Irtysh medical

Everything agreed with Spartak Moscow, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad10 Sep 2035

A falling-out at Irtysh

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

Transfer targets10 Sep 2035

Irtysh rebuffed over Vladlen Goncharov

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Akhmat Grozny have kept their man, and Irtysh go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout10 Sep 2035

The manager makes an example of Yuriy Kashirin

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market10 Sep 2035

Still no ink between Irtysh and Vladimir Platonov

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Irtysh, another week without a signature from Vladimir Platonov.

Squad10 Sep 2035

Jonathan Russell 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 dugout10 Sep 2035

When it matters, Timur Zhirkov plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout10 Sep 2035

Ramazan Ibragimov asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief