The Salyut Courier
Market16 Jul 2035
Inal Dudaev asks to leave Salyut
“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.
Market16 Jul 2035
Giannis Spandonidis has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Salyut they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets16 Jul 2035
Matvey Kholin is a medical away from Salyut
The deal with PSK Pervorechenskoe 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.
Boardroom16 Jul 2035
Giannis Spandonidis has agreed to leave Salyut for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad16 Jul 2035
Words exchanged at Salyut
Zakhar Terpugov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom16 Jul 2035
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Salyut
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets16 Jul 2035
Door shut on Nikita Baranov
Salyut asked and Krasnodar said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Boardroom16 Jul 2035
Wages swallow 186% of the Salyut income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Market16 Jul 2035
One of our own: Viktor Guryev joins the Salyut first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Viktor Guryev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Fedot Kharlamov steps up from the Salyut academy
- Boardroom Salyut board go back on their word
- The dugout When it matters, Vladislav Zernaev plays