Alan Bagaev

Central Defender - Alania
18 Aug 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Alan Bagaev

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The Alania Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Arsen Revazov says no to Zvezda

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Arsen Revazov had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Squad

Batraz Gurtsiev 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 Alania this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Eyes on Georgy Karkuzaev again

The phone has started ringing about Georgy Karkuzaev again, and this time the name on the line is Orel. Alania are listening politely and promising nothing.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Batraz Gurtsiev

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words at Alania training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Matyushenko 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to David Byazrov

At 23 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.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Alan Bagaev

Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Murat Yshyk

15 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

The dugout

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.” Georgy Borodin chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Alania Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Terms done: Georgy Shalamkov is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Druzhba waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Alania is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Player ratings

Batraz Gurtsiev runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Artur Kozyrev, 19, steals the show — 8.08

Marked 8.08 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

Tempers go at Alania

Alan Bagaev 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.

Transfer targets

Alania rebuffed over Gavriil Sedov

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Mashuk have kept their man, and Alania go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The terraces

Alania supporters have found a favourite in Anzor Amiraliev

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Anzor Amiraliev has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Artur Kozyrev the difference as Alania beat Dinamo Moscow 2

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Artur Kozyrev. 2‑0 against Dinamo Moscow 2, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market

Matvey Rogov steps up from the Alania academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Matvey Rogov 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.

Market

Alania promote Yaroslav Chesnokov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yaroslav Chesnokov 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

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The Alania Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Batraz Gurtsiev

Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

7 saves: David Byazrov was the team

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.

Squad

Alan Bagaev signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alan Bagaev and Alania agree another 2 years.

Squad

Alan Bagaev 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 Alania this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Eyes on Sarmat Ogoev again

The phone has started ringing about Sarmat Ogoev again, and this time the name on the line is Druzhba. Alania are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Batraz Gurtsiev 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Alania against Volgar

1‑2 to Volgar, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market

Still no ink between Alania and Alan Bagaev

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Alania, another week without a signature from Alan Bagaev.

The dugout

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 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Georgy Borodin to a room that had heard them before.

In brief