The Spartak Tambov Sentinel
Market12 Jul 2038
Gonçalo Sousa is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Spartak Tambov is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Jul 2038
Daniel Graham keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Spartak Tambov may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market12 Jul 2038
Matvey Belousov 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 Spartak Tambov can pretend not to have heard.
Squad12 Jul 2038
Real improvement from Lois Doku at Spartak Tambov
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Lois Doku is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Jul 2038
Maxim Yedapin 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 Spartak Tambov this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Jul 2038
Luis Margas 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.
In brief
- Market The Roman Piletskiy story refuses to die
- Market The clock does Fedor Protasov’s negotiating for him