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Market8 Nov 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Moscow can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match6 Nov 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Dinamo Moscow did not have in the autumn.
Match6 Nov 2027
Three points for Dinamo Moscow, 3-1 the final word against Orenburg in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Loan watch8 Nov 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Dinamo Moscow, and 0 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
3 goals and a season average of 7.31. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
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Steady
Market30 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Dinamo Moscow have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Andrey Lunev lets one through his hands
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Match28 Aug 2027
1-2 to Krylya Sovetov, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Maxim Osipenko 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Baqtiiar Zainutdinov leaves Dinamo Moscow the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Market30 Aug 2027
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Daniil Zavarzin moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
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Squad2 Aug 2027
A one-man rearguard from Andrey Lunev
There were 11 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
Zenit come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Dinamo Moscow did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dinamo Moscow have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market2 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Dinamo Moscow have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market2 Aug 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Dinamo Moscow will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Match31 Jul 2027
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Steady
Market14 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Moscow can pretend not to have heard.
Market14 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Dinamo Moscow have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market14 Jun 2027
“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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“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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Loan watch24 May 2027
“I did not go to Korona to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dinamo Moscow and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 15 matches say the rest.
Market24 May 2027
The Danil Glebov talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dinamo Moscow know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Loan watch24 May 2027
32 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Loan watch3 May 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Dinamo Moscow, and 4 appearances in 35 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Maxim Osipenko
“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.
Market3 May 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dinamo Moscow know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad1 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Ivan Sergeev
“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.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Vojvodina to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dinamo Moscow and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 26 matches say the rest.
Market1 Mar 2027
The name of Danil Glebov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Dinamo Moscow say nothing, which says plenty.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
31 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dinamo Moscow, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market1 Mar 2027
The window shut and Maxim Osipenko is still in the building
Dinamo Moscow spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
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Steady
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
27 appearances at Chernomorets and the goals keep coming. Dinamo Moscow are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Maxim Osipenko
“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.
Market15 Feb 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Maxim Osipenko may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The language is coming and there is somebody to talk to in the dressing room. A footballer who feels at home plays like one, and it never shows up in a scouting report.
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Squad18 Jan 2027
Daniil Fomin left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Daniil Fomin will call it something else in private.
Match16 Jan 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Baltika will be the happier side with the point.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Arthur Gomes wants a proper job in this side
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Arthur Gomes has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Dinamo Moscow know, and have known for weeks.