Daniil Plotnikov

Central Defender - Free Agent
11 Feb 2046
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniil Plotnikov

943 Edition

The Torpedo Moscow Courier

22 Aug 2044
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Yegor Sysoev

37 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torpedo Moscow lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Damir Kasalo scores twice — 8.28

Two goals and a mark of 8.28 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Ibrahima Camara yet — 7.88

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.88 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Maxim Dementyev asks to leave Torpedo Moscow

“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.

Squad

Andrii Nervutsa 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Torpedo Moscow see off Dinamo Moscow

Three points for Torpedo Moscow, 3‑1 the final word against Dinamo Moscow in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Match

Damir Kasalo at the heart of a fast Torpedo Moscow start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Damir Kasalo in the middle of it, and Dinamo Moscow unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

Squad

Torpedo Moscow count the cost of losing Daniil Plotnikov

20 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Andrii Nervutsa has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Torpedo Moscow will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

Back issues
939 Edition

The Torpedo Moscow Courier

25 Jul 2044
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Yegor Sysoev

65 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torpedo Moscow lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

A hiding for Torpedo Moscow

Beaten 1‑4 by Zenit, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

Andrii Nervutsa 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mark Moore

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Torpedo Moscow lose Daniil Plotnikov

48 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Torpedo Moscow

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

In brief

938 Edition

The Torpedo Moscow Courier

18 Jul 2044
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Yegor Sysoev

72 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torpedo Moscow lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Dmytro Pozhar

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Tempers go at Torpedo Moscow

Yegor Sysoev 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Nikolay Bykov at Torpedo Moscow

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nikolay Bykov is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Boardroom

11 academy players handed senior numbers at Torpedo Moscow

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.

Match

Damir Kasalo sends Torpedo Moscow past Chelyabinsk

It finished 2‑1, and it was Damir Kasalo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Torpedo Moscow.

Market

One of our own: Prokhor Kalinichev joins the Torpedo Moscow first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Prokhor Kalinichev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Vitaliy Larionov joins the Torpedo Moscow first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vitaliy Larionov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Daniil Plotnikov joins the Torpedo Moscow first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniil Plotnikov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief