Marked for Philipp Dvoretskov
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Murom
A 2‑0 win over Torpedo Miass, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market24 Aug 2026
Yegor Sedov 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 Murom can pretend not to have heard.
Match22 Aug 2026
Murom cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Murom had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Fakel, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Murom
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Philipp Dvoretskov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces24 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Murom have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Ruslan Bolov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Murom.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Upbeat
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Fakel have kept their man, and Murom go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Philipp Dvoretskov 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Murom
Denis Faizullin 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Avangard made Murom work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.89 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Murom had the best player on the pitch.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan move for Kirill Simonov is in the works
Murom have made the call to Fakel. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Pavel Mukhin on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Murom have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
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.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ruslan Bolov commits to Murom for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Murom
Ruslan Bolov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Philipp Dvoretskov 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.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Kirill Roschin again, and this time the name on the line is Uralets-TS. Murom are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market3 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Nikita Zheimo's contract
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Murom are still strangers to each other
19 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.55 on the card, and the Murom support went home talking about one name.