Marked for Ivan Chudin
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Tyumen
Alexandr Bem 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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Tyumen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vitaly Shitov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match14 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Alexandr Bem. 2‑0 against Dinamo Moscow 2, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Daniil Kamlashev at his very best
Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Tyumen.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Ivan Chudin gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Ivan Pyatkin left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Ivan Pyatkin will call it something else in private.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” German Kuzin on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Tyumen
Vitaly Shitov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Tyumen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Bem was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match7 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for Tyumen against Alania
0‑2 to Alania, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Ivan Pyatkin
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Looking ahead9 Nov 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Ivan Zazvonkin’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Tyumen needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Daniil Kamlashev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market2 Nov 2026
“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.
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Tyumen is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Alexandr Bem 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
380% of the income goes out in wages at Tyumen
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Sergey Zuikov
7.46, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Tyumen had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
No place for Ivan Chudin on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Tyumen pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Match31 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Volgar will be the happier side with the point.
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Steady
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Alexandr Bem 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 Tyumen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Tyumen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vitaly Shitov 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Vitaly Shitov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
The big one: Textilschik come into view
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Tyumen will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
5 new faces, and Tyumen are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
Tyumen counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Tyumen now.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” German Kuzin was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Tyumen dressing room was either.
Match10 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Dinamo Kirov will be the happier side with the point.
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Steady
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Tyumen — 7.66
1 for Damir Talikin, marked 7.66, 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 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andrey Marjanov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tyumen the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Tyumen
Vitaly Shitov 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Tyumen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Bem 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Damir Talikin. 1‑0 against Veles, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match28 Sep 2026
The half-term report on Tyumen
Position 4, 15 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” German Kuzin on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
No place in the plan for Ivan Chudin
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tyumen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Sep 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Tyumen have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market7 Sep 2026
Add another name to the list: Baltika have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Vitaly Shitov. The answer from Tyumen has not changed — yet.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kirill Chemakin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tyumen the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Alexandr Bem 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Three points for Tyumen, 2‑1 the final word against Alania in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Tyumen
Pavel Shakuro 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.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tyumen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Tyumen is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tyumen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ivan Chudin 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Vladlen Babaev was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.10. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Volgar leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” German Kuzin chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
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Steady
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Kolomna waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Tyumen is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market24 Aug 2026
Tyumen say no — this time
The offer from Nizhniy Novgorod for Vitaly Shitov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tyumen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ivan Chudin 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Late, late show earns Tyumen a point
Minute 88, against Mashuk, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Market24 Aug 2026
Ivan Chudin told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ivan Chudin has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Tyumen.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Tyumen
Maxim Yedapin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match22 Aug 2026
Honours even between Tyumen and Mashuk
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Looking ahead
A reunion for Vladlen Babaev
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The dugout
Ivan Chudin asks for a word with the manager
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market17 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Tyumen have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market17 Aug 2026
Maxim Abakumov has left for Uralets-TS in a $13.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Tyumen
Pavel Shakuro and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match15 Aug 2026
Textilschik left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Tyumen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniil Kamlashev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Ivan Chudin gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by German Kuzin to a room that had heard them before.
Squad17 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Tyumen are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
10 seasons and 183 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vladlen Babaev and Tyumen agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Tyumen
Alexandr Bem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match1 Aug 2026
Three points for Tyumen, 1‑0 the final word against Sibir in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Tyumen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ivan Chudin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” German Kuzin kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
The one thing Alexandr Bem could not do
Shots: 15, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.