Dmitry Sasin

Right Midfielder - Neftekhimik
13 Mar 2027
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Marked for Dmitry Sasin

29 Edition

The Neftekhimik Gazette

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings15 Feb 2027

Nobody could get near Ivan Bober

Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match13 Feb 2027

The wait goes on for Neftekhimik

9 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.

Market15 Feb 2027

Akron come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Neftekhimik did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Rashid Magomedov 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 Neftekhimik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market15 Feb 2027

Business is business: Maxim Shiryaev goes

Rodina paid $280.0K and Neftekhimik took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Boardroom15 Feb 2027

Neftekhimik beat the market to Igor Kurbanov from Luki-Energiya

Luki-Energiya will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Igor Kurbanov has pre-agreed a move to Neftekhimik, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Andrey Golubev 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.

Squad15 Feb 2027

The manager makes an example of Daniil Marugin

“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.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Neftekhimik pick somebody else ahead of Maxim Martusevich

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The Sokol Post

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match6 Feb 2027

The wait goes on for Sokol

6 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.

Market8 Feb 2027

Eyes on Dmitry Sasin again

The phone has started ringing about Dmitry Sasin again, and this time the name on the line is Neftekhimik. Sokol are listening politely and promising nothing.

Match6 Feb 2027

Fakel take the points off Sokol

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Ivan Churikov 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.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Ivan Kuznetsov gets it from the manager

“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.

Player ratings8 Feb 2027

The afternoon belonged to Roman Pasevich

7.98, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Sokol had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief

8 Edition

The Sokol Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Mikhail Maltsev

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Sokol

Vladimir Kovačević 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words at Sokol training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johan Restrepo 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Maxim Kutovoy

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maxim Kutovoy, and the manager let it.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Dmitry Sasin dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Match19 Sep 2026

Sokol draw a blank against Neftekhimik

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Neftekhimik defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

2 Edition

The Sokol Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match8 Aug 2026

Cruel end for Torpedo Moscow as Sokol pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Sokol scored in the 94th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Vladimir Kovačević 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 Sokol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces10 Aug 2026

Sokol supporters have found a favourite in Aleksej Golijanin

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Aleksej Golijanin has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match8 Aug 2026

Dmitry Sasin sends Sokol past Torpedo Moscow

It finished 1‑0, and it was Dmitry Sasin’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sokol.

Market10 Aug 2026

Sokol and Pavel Kireenko 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.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

The afternoon belonged to Dmitry Sasin

7.55, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Sokol had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Roman Pasevich runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market10 Aug 2026

The clock runs on Vladislav Lazarev's contract

48 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Vladimir Kovačević left out for tactical reasons at Sokol

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief