Patrick Babel

Left Midfielder - Rubin 2
19 Sep 2038
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Marked for Patrick Babel

630 Edition

The Rubin 2 Courier

23 Aug 2038
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad23 Aug 2038

Leonardo Ribeiro damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 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.

Market23 Aug 2038

Patrick Babel puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Rubin 2, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market23 Aug 2038

Only the photograph left for Irakli Mchedlidze

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Irakli Mchedlidze will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rubin 2 the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad23 Aug 2038

Tempers go at Rubin 2

Alessandro Raimo 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.

Squad23 Aug 2038

No hiding place for Patrick Babel

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Patrick Babel, and the manager let it.

Market23 Aug 2038

Egor Tikhomirov attracts admirers

The name of Egor Tikhomirov has come up in conversations Rubin 2 were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

In brief

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626 Edition

The Rubin 2 Courier

26 Jul 2038
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market26 Jul 2038

Patrick Babel puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Rubin 2, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad26 Jul 2038

Kasper Solhaug breaks a bone — 33 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 33 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market26 Jul 2038

Only the photograph left for Irakli Mchedlidze

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Irakli Mchedlidze will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rubin 2 the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad26 Jul 2038

Tempers go at Rubin 2

Gabriel Pohl 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.

Market26 Jul 2038

Neftekhimik watching Leonardo Ribeiro

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Rubin 2 have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad26 Jul 2038

Home is on Gabriel Reta's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Rubin 2 are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief

624 Edition

The Rubin 2 Courier

12 Jul 2038
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad12 Jul 2038

Kasper Solhaug breaks a bone — 47 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 47 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market12 Jul 2038

Namig Sadygov asks to leave Rubin 2

“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 Jul 2038

Rubin 2 turn down Rostov for Leonardo Ribeiro

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad12 Jul 2038

Tempers go at Rubin 2

Alessandro Raimo 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.

Squad12 Jul 2038

Fabian Rodriguez signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fabian Rodriguez commits to Rubin 2 for another 3 years.

Market12 Jul 2038

Rodina M are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Rubin 2 will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

620 Edition

The Rubin 2 Courier

14 Jun 2038
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad14 Jun 2038

A fracture rules Kasper Solhaug out for 75 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Rubin 2 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market14 Jun 2038

Patrick Babel 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 Rubin 2 can pretend not to have heard.

Squad14 Jun 2038

Gabriel Pohl 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 Rubin 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Jun 2038

Namig Sadygov wants to finish where he started

Every long career reaches the week the player starts thinking about the last one. He would like it to be at the club that first put him on a pitch, and Rubin 2 now know that too.

Squad14 Jun 2038

Words at Rubin 2 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stephen Jones 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.

Market14 Jun 2038

Namig Sadygov is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Rubin 2 has been clear about where Namig Sadygov stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief