Marked for Benjamin Jackson
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Squad10 Jul 2045
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market10 Jul 2045
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dinamo Moscow 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market10 Jul 2045
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Moscow 2 they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market10 Jul 2045
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Jul 2045
Logan Cooke 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 Dinamo Moscow 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Jul 2045
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mauro Dalla Valle is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
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Match26 Jun 2045
Position 1 and 39 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad26 Jun 2045
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market26 Jun 2045
“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.
Market26 Jun 2045
The offer from Krylya Sovetov for Benjamin Jackson was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market26 Jun 2045
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Moscow 2 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Jun 2045
Oscar Hiljemark 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.
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The terraces19 Jun 2045
Anger at Dinamo Moscow 2 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.
Market19 Jun 2045
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dinamo Moscow 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Jun 2045
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad19 Jun 2045
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Moscow 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Jun 2045
Giulio Casella 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.
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Market15 May 2045
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dinamo Moscow 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad15 May 2045
John Barnes 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.
Squad15 May 2045
Words at Dinamo Moscow 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benjamin Jackson 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.
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Match3 Apr 2045
Position 1 and 39 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad3 Apr 2045
Nacer Chadli breaks a bone — 49 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 49 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market3 Apr 2045
“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.
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Squad20 Feb 2045
Nacer Chadli breaks a bone — 91 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 91 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad20 Feb 2045
David Harutyunyan 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.
Squad20 Feb 2045
“The easiest signature of my career.” Meven Loric and Dinamo Moscow 2 agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Squad13 Feb 2045
Nacer Chadli 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.
Squad13 Feb 2045
Words at Dinamo Moscow 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Alekhin 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.
Squad13 Feb 2045
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexandru Maxim commits to Dinamo Moscow 2 for another 4 years.
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Squad12 Dec 2044
Diogo Barroso damages knee ligaments — 77 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 77 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match12 Dec 2044
Position 1 and 39 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market12 Dec 2044
“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.
Market12 Dec 2044
Only the photograph left for Manuel Amisano
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Manuel Amisano will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Moscow 2 the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Dec 2044
Clae Ewing 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.
Squad12 Dec 2044
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Clae Ewing, and the manager let it.
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Match24 Sep 2044
Dinamo Moscow 2 make home a hard place to visit
13 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Market26 Sep 2044
Only the photograph left for Jacopo Bianchi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jacopo Bianchi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Moscow 2 the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 Sep 2044
Clae Ewing 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 Dinamo Moscow 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match24 Sep 2044
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings26 Sep 2044
Nobody could get near Markel Rey
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match24 Sep 2044
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad26 Sep 2044
Words at Dinamo Moscow 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benjamin Jackson 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.
Squad26 Sep 2044
“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.
Squad26 Sep 2044
The division's best last weekend was a Dinamo Moscow 2 man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Gregorio Leone was the best thing in any of them.
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Squad11 Jul 2044
David Harutyunyan damages knee ligaments — 87 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 87 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market11 Jul 2044
“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.
Squad11 Jul 2044
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Felipe Moreira commits to Dinamo Moscow 2 for another 4 years.
Squad11 Jul 2044
Emanuele Schembre 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.
Squad11 Jul 2044
A last season at home is what David Harutyunyan is after
It is sentimental, it is completely genuine, and it is the beginning of a departure nobody has announced. The club can be gracious about it or it can pretend not to have heard.
Market11 Jul 2044
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Dinamo Moscow 2 will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Squad13 Jun 2044
David Harutyunyan damages knee ligaments — 115 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 115 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market13 Jun 2044
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Moscow 2 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad13 Jun 2044
Clae Ewing 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.
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Squad25 Apr 2044
A knee injury of the worst kind for Enrico Formicola
65 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo Moscow 2 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad25 Apr 2044
Jalil Conteh 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.
Squad25 Apr 2044
Words at Dinamo Moscow 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Danila Godyaev 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.
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Squad28 Mar 2044
A knee injury of the worst kind for Enrico Formicola
93 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo Moscow 2 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Mar 2044
Jalil Conteh 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.
Squad28 Mar 2044
Words at Dinamo Moscow 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ayxan Süleymanlı 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.
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Squad29 Feb 2044
Raphael Wober damages knee ligaments — 79 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 79 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market29 Feb 2044
“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.
Squad29 Feb 2044
Jalil Conteh 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.
Squad29 Feb 2044
19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad29 Feb 2044
Words at Dinamo Moscow 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Danila Godyaev 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.
Market29 Feb 2044
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Dinamo Moscow 2 will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Squad25 Jan 2044
A knee injury of the worst kind for Raphael Wober
114 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo Moscow 2 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market25 Jan 2044
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dinamo Moscow 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings25 Jan 2044
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad25 Jan 2044
78 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad25 Jan 2044
Jalil Conteh 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.
Squad25 Jan 2044
29 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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Squad30 Nov 2043
A fracture rules Martin Darida out for 20 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dinamo Moscow 2 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market30 Nov 2043
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Moscow 2 they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad30 Nov 2043
Jalil Conteh 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.
Squad30 Nov 2043
Words at Dinamo Moscow 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jean-Luc Rousseau 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2043
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Nov 2043
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dejan Horvat, and the manager let it.
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Squad9 Nov 2043
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad9 Nov 2043
A fracture rules Martin Darida out for 41 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dinamo Moscow 2 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market9 Nov 2043
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Moscow 2 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Nov 2043
Jalil Conteh 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 Dinamo Moscow 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2043
Jean-Luc Rousseau 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.
Match7 Nov 2043
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.