The Saturn Chronicle
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Evgeny Kovalevskiy, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.79
A mark of 7.79 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match19 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Saturn
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad21 Sep 2026
George Harmon signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” George Harmon commits to Saturn for another 3 years.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Valery Chupin 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 terraces21 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Evgeny Kovalevskiy
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match19 Sep 2026
Saturn get the job done against Zvezda
A 1‑0 win over Zvezda, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
One of those days for Maxim Kunskiy
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Maxim Kunskiy has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Saturn 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Valery Matveenkov dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- Market The Denis Beskorovainy talk will not go away
- Player ratings Semyon Yemelin runs at them all day
- Market The window shut and Mikhail Sheludyakov is still in the building