Marked for Alan Bagaev
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Market24 Aug 2026
Inal Dudaev hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Alania can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
Alania say no — this time
The offer from Nart for David Tepsikoev 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Alania make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Alania have 3 straight wins of it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Alania
Makhach Abdulkhamidov 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Zaurbek Ramonov has left for KDV Tomsk in a $40.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Match22 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Dinamo Kirov, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.75 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of David Kokoev has come up in conversations Alania were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2026
There were 8 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.
Market17 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 The request is on a desk at Alania, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 9.39 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Makhach Abdulkhamidov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Alania.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anzor Amiraliev, and the manager let it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.19 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market17 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Alania will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Artem Zakirov
Defensive actions: 14. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market10 Aug 2026
Ruslan Bagaev hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Alania can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.25 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match8 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Dzambolat Tsallagov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Alania.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Alan Khugaev
Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market10 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ibragim Tsallagov commits to Alania for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Alania have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Alan Bagaev
Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Alan Khugaev
A mark of 7.48, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Market3 Aug 2026
No place for Inal Dudaev in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Inal Dudaev has his answer from Alania; what he does with it is the next window’s story.