Marked for Dmitry Moiseev
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market27 Sep 2032
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Chertanovo can pretend not to have heard.
Squad27 Sep 2032
Kirill Dvornikov 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.
Match25 Sep 2032
A 2‑0 win over Luki-Energiya, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings27 Sep 2032
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.36, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad27 Sep 2032
Words at Chertanovo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rustam Isaev 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.
Squad27 Sep 2032
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
The dugout27 Sep 2032
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Interim Coach, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout27 Sep 2032
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market27 Sep 2032
The name of Ivan Polyakov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Chertanovo say nothing, which says plenty.
Back issues
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Crisis
The terraces16 Aug 2032
Anger at Chertanovo 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.
Market16 Aug 2032
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Chertanovo can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2032
The deal with Legion is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad16 Aug 2032
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Chertanovo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match14 Aug 2032
Dinamo Vologda left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout16 Aug 2032
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcis Jagodinskis, and the manager let it.
Squad16 Aug 2032
Rustam Isaev 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 dugout16 Aug 2032
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings16 Aug 2032
Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Uneasy
The terraces19 Jul 2032
Anger at Chertanovo 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.
Squad19 Jul 2032
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market19 Jul 2032
“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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2032
Everything agreed with Kosmos, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad19 Jul 2032
Kirill Dvornikov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom19 Jul 2032
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad19 Jul 2032
Words at Chertanovo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zakhar Svetov 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.
Market19 Jul 2032
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nikolay Kryukov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market19 Jul 2032
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nil Suvorov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.