The Kuban Gazette
Boardroom2 Jun 2036
Kuban put Interim Coach on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad2 Jun 2036
Lukas Christensen is the young player of the season
Not a month, not a run of form — a whole season of being the best 21-year-old anybody in this division could put on a pitch. This is the honour that gets mentioned for the rest of his career.
Squad2 Jun 2036
Tempers go at Kuban
Andrey Kulagin 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.
Boardroom2 Jun 2036
$252.6K of the owner's money at Kuban
The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.
Squad2 Jun 2036
Words at Kuban training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ilja Vorontsov 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.
Market2 Jun 2036
Aleksandr Shubin steps up from the Kuban academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Aleksandr Shubin 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.
Market2 Jun 2036
One of our own: Prokhor Sychev joins the Kuban first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Prokhor Sychev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market2 Jun 2036
Kuban promote Georgy Plotnikov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Georgy Plotnikov 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.
Market2 Jun 2036
Kuban promote Miroslav Muratov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Miroslav Muratov 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.
In brief
- Boardroom 117% of the income goes out in wages at Kuban
- The dugout Ilja Vorontsov is still paying for one afternoon at Kuban
- The dugout The manager's exit leaves Dmitry Zheltukhin exposed