Marked for David Karaev
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Crisis
Match7 Dec 2026
KAMAZ sink to position 18
13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match5 Dec 2026
KAMAZ come up short against Ufa
Ufa left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Ruslan Ayukin
“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.
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Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
Chaika made KAMAZ work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roman Manuilov, and the manager let it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Match7 Nov 2026
10 matches without a win for KAMAZ
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around KAMAZ are no longer polite ones.
Match9 Nov 2026
KAMAZ sink to position 18
10 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match7 Nov 2026
Dmitry Tananeev scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Rotor, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Maxim Burko asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market9 Nov 2026
The name of Savely Ratnikov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KAMAZ say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Match12 Oct 2026
KAMAZ are in real trouble now
Position 18, 8 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match10 Oct 2026
No end in sight to KAMAZ's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at KAMAZ has to find a result from somewhere.
Match10 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KAMAZ, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Savely Ratnikov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KAMAZ say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at KAMAZ, another week without a signature from Denis Faizullin.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maxim Laikin, and the manager let it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for KAMAZ?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Neftekhimik? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Denis Faizullin trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market14 Sep 2026
KAMAZ opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Roman Zaschepkin stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.
Market14 Sep 2026
The name of Savely Ratnikov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KAMAZ say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 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 KAMAZ, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match5 Sep 2026
Three points for KAMAZ, 2‑1 the final word against SKA Khabarovsk in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 843% of everything KAMAZ earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nikita Matskharashvili trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. KAMAZ have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market7 Sep 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Roman Zaschepkin may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
Maxim Laikin 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 KAMAZ can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for KAMAZ
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eduard Valiakhmetov, and the manager let it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Spartak Kostroma left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Andrey Semenov knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Andrey Semenov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
There were 6 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.
Market10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on David Karaev's contract
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Match8 Aug 2026
KAMAZ and Ufa take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market10 Aug 2026
No place for Maxim Laikin in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Maxim Laikin has his answer from KAMAZ; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad10 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. KAMAZ have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Saminu Abdullahi commits to KAMAZ for another 4 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market3 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Timofey Kalistratov has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at KAMAZ.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Savely Ratnikov
“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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Yenisey will be the happier side with the point.