The Zenit Gazette
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Zenit bid $35.4M for Gianluca Scamacca
The offer went to Atalanta this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market3 Aug 2026
Vitoria Guimaraes come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Zenit did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Zenit bid $10.6M for Igoh Ogbu
The offer went to Slavia Prague this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Match1 Aug 2026
Zenit leave it late against Lokomotiv Moscow
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 88th, and Lokomotiv Moscow spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Inter Miami CF tell Zenit: Rodrigo De Paul is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A brace, and Felipe Augusto takes the afternoon — 8.52
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Felipe Augusto provided it, and the 8.52 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market3 Aug 2026
Luiz Henrique wants more than Zenit are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Market3 Aug 2026
Zenit may not be able to give Douglas Santos what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Douglas Santos wants continental football; whether Zenit can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Market3 Aug 2026
Angers SCO watching Andrey Mostovoy
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Zenit have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
In brief
- Squad Douglas Santos signs a new deal
- Squad Douglas Santos wants to go home
- Squad A falling-out at Zenit