Marked for David Khubaev
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
61 days out for Daniil Shamkin after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. KAMAZ will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.58 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
KAMAZ close the window on a squad of their own making
17 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Match12 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten KAMAZ
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at KAMAZ
Magomed Abakarov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Moscow have kept their man, and KAMAZ go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Three points for KAMAZ, 2‑1 the final word against Neftekhimik in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at KAMAZ training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Khubaev 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The name of Vladislav Vasiljev has come up in conversations KAMAZ were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
In brief
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at KAMAZ
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The dugout
The form table has caught Anderson Magrão
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
Back issues
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Daniil Shamkin out for 76 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason KAMAZ will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what KAMAZ can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at KAMAZ
David Karaev 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 targets31 Aug 2026
KAMAZ asked and Partizan said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Artur Anisimov
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at KAMAZ
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Khubaev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match29 Aug 2026
KAMAZ rescue it on 93 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 93. Spartak Kostroma had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
KAMAZ have made the call to Rubin. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Daniil Shamkin out for 83 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason KAMAZ will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
KAMAZ had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Panathinaikos, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at KAMAZ
David Karaev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
David Khubaev 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Jeinner Fuentes is in the works
KAMAZ have made the call to Deportes Tolima. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout24 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Makar Tokarev after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and KAMAZ did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at KAMAZ
David Karaev 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 targets10 Aug 2026
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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
At 22 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Alexei Egorov joins the KAMAZ first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alexei Egorov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Pavel Tokarev joins the KAMAZ first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pavel Tokarev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Radomir Zakharov 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Squad10 Aug 2026
David Khubaev 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.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
249 appearances across 13 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and KAMAZ know exactly what they have.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.82 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and David Khubaev delivers — 7.46
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. David Khubaev scored, was marked 7.46, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Artem Popov and KAMAZ agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
David Karaev 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 KAMAZ this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
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.
Match1 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Daniil Shamkin’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to KAMAZ.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Savely Ratnikov has come up in conversations KAMAZ were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Artur Anisimov
“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.