The Alania Post
Squad4 May 2037
Dato Chertkoev breaks a bone — 98 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 98 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom4 May 2037
Alania put Prokhor Lukyanov on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Match4 May 2037
Alania are in real trouble now
Position 8, 14 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Boardroom4 May 2037
Crisis meeting at Alania
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Market4 May 2037
Innokentiy Artemov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Alania they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad4 May 2037
Pavel Kuznetsov signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pavel Kuznetsov and Alania agree another 2 years.
Boardroom4 May 2037
$298.5K of the owner's money at Alania
The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.
Squad4 May 2037
Alania count the cost of losing Viktor Sergeev
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad4 May 2037
Victor Nafikov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Alania 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.
In brief
- Market The Ruslan Gogniev story refuses to die
- Boardroom Alania answer back