The Rostov Sentinel
Market3 Aug 2026
Rostov may not be able to give Ronaldo what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Ronaldo wants continental football; whether Rostov can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Anton Zabolotny signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Anton Zabolotny and Rostov agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ronaldo wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Rostov can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Rostov
Ronaldo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market3 Aug 2026
Dinamo Brest watching Yaroslav Mikhailov
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Rostov have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Victor Melekhin 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Rostov come up short against Rubin
Rubin left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market3 Aug 2026
Rostov and Anton Zabolotny are talking past each other
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Rostov has picked up the phone to Dmitry Chistyakov
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
In brief
- The dugout Andrei Bessonov faces the questions
- Transfer targets Rostov try to borrow Alexey Miranchuk
- The dugout Olakunle Olusegun knocks on the manager’s door