The Saturn Chronicle
Squad17 Sep 2035
The knee: Alexei Protasov out for 38 days
38 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Saturn lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings17 Sep 2035
Mikhail Lyubimov beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market17 Sep 2035
Fyodor Khrenov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Saturn they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad17 Sep 2035
Mikhail Lyubimov 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 Saturn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout17 Sep 2035
Diego Corona frozen out at Saturn
This is not rotation. Diego Corona has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Saturn is pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets17 Sep 2035
Dinamo Moscow tell Saturn: Ivan Grigoryev 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.
Squad17 Sep 2035
A row about effort at Saturn
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patrik Hanák was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market17 Sep 2035
Saturn promote Vladimir Kuznetsov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vladimir Kuznetsov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market17 Sep 2035
Yuriy Knyazev steps up from the Saturn academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yuriy Knyazev 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.
In brief
- Market Saturn promote Boris Isakov from within
- Match Saturn see off Luki-Energiya
- Player ratings Patrik Hanák takes the honours