The Orel Courier
Squad16 Jul 2035
A fracture rules Maxim Karaev out for 29 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Orel will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market16 Jul 2035
Yegor Skichko asks to leave Orel
“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.
The dugout16 Jul 2035
Santino Roldán frozen out at Orel
This is not rotation. Santino Roldán has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Orel is pretending otherwise.
Squad16 Jul 2035
Words exchanged at Orel
Danil Stepanov 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 Orel
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.
Squad16 Jul 2035
A row about effort at Orel
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Bem was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets16 Jul 2035
Spartak Moscow tell Orel: Denis Nikitin is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market16 Jul 2035
Arseniy Alexandrov steps up from the Orel academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Arseniy Alexandrov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market16 Jul 2035
One of our own: Stanislav Babkin joins the Orel first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stanislav Babkin 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 Yakov Rybakov steps up from the Orel academy
- The dugout No hiding place for Ivan Kuznetsov
- Boardroom Orel cannot sign anybody