Simon Smith

Left Midfielder - Kosmos
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The Kosmos Post

7 Jul 2042
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Jul 2042

Nikolai Kalinovsky breaks a bone — 31 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom7 Jul 2042

Kosmos spell it out for Pavel Leskov

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Pavel Leskov has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom7 Jul 2042

The Kosmos board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Market7 Jul 2042

Gabor Nagy is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Kosmos is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad7 Jul 2042

Ilsur Valeev signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ilsur Valeev commits to Kosmos for another 2 years.

Boardroom7 Jul 2042

The owner puts $240.2K into Kosmos

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Squad7 Jul 2042

Francesco Carlin 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 Kosmos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom7 Jul 2042

Kosmos are $6.6M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

Squad7 Jul 2042

The manager's exit leaves Artyom Dorokhov exposed

Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Artyom Dorokhov is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.

In brief

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The Kosmos Post

28 Oct 2041
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad28 Oct 2041

Francesco Carlin breaks a bone — 95 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 95 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings28 Oct 2041

Tobias Bergmann scores twice — 8.46

Two goals and a mark of 8.46 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings28 Oct 2041

A defender's goal wins it for Kosmos — 7.64

1 for Zanis Tsagarakis, marked 7.64, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Market28 Oct 2041

Only the photograph left for Maksim Zaitsev

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Maksim Zaitsev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kosmos the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match26 Oct 2041

Torpedo Vladimir take the points off Kosmos

Beaten 3‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Match26 Oct 2041

7 goals as Kosmos and Torpedo Vladimir go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Kosmos and Torpedo Vladimir, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad28 Oct 2041

Iznaur Tashaev 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 Kosmos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Oct 2041

Dawid Fornalik 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 terraces28 Oct 2041

Kosmos supporters have found a favourite in Tobias Bergmann

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Tobias Bergmann has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

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The Kosmos Post

17 Jun 2041
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad17 Jun 2041

Ilsur Valeev breaks a bone — 99 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 99 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market17 Jun 2041

Dmitry Vranitsyn asks to leave Kosmos

“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.

Boardroom17 Jun 2041

Gabriele Gallo signs for Baltika while still at Kosmos

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Gabriele Gallo has agreed terms with Baltika for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Boardroom17 Jun 2041

Wages eat 120% of everything Kosmos earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Market17 Jun 2041

Kosmos sign Simon Smith, one for the future

Simon Smith is 20, and Kosmos have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market17 Jun 2041

Kosmos buy the years ahead of Kristian Ajer

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief