The Kvant Post
Match12 Jan 2036
The wait goes on for Kvant
13 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad14 Jan 2036
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikolay Kozlov
32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kvant lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 Jan 2036
Marjus Kola asks to leave Kvant
“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.
Squad14 Jan 2036
Theodoros Delianidis 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.
Match12 Jan 2036
Kvant come up short against Dinamo St Petersburg
Dinamo St Petersburg left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad14 Jan 2036
The manager makes an example of Kirill Zhukov
“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.
Player ratings14 Jan 2036
Theodoros Delianidis runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Jan 2036
Timofey Arsenyev 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 Kvant this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Jan 2036
The shop window has Theodoros Delianidis in it
Kvant have let the market know Theodoros Delianidis can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
In brief
- Market Kvant and Timofey Kuznetsov are talking past each other
- Boardroom Kvant keep producing them