The Rodina Sentinel
Squad7 Sep 2026
Artem Maximenko 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 Rodina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Sep 2026
Business is business: Daniel Svintsov goes
Ufa paid $440.0K and Rodina took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Kerfala Cissoko 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Andrey Yegorychev
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Danil Ladokha named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Danil Ladokha is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Match5 Sep 2026
Honours even between Rodina and Fakel
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Sebastián Arce
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Arshak Koryan changes it off the bench
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Rodina had a different afternoon.
Market7 Sep 2026
Ivan Timoshenko placed on the list
Rodina have made Ivan Timoshenko available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
In brief
- Market Ivan Timoshenko linked with a move away
- Market Svyatoslav Kozhedub goes out on loan