The Rotor Gazette
Market7 Sep 2026
Akron come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Rotor did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match5 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for Rotor
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Rotor are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Rotor
Alexandr Troshechkin 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Ilja Safronov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 841% of everything Rotor 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
No hiding place for Tomislav Dadić
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tomislav Dadić, and the manager let it.
Match5 Sep 2026
Rotor come up short against Ural
Ural left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Alexandr Khokhlachev knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Rotor, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Said Aliev question follows Rotor around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Said Aliev’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Squad David Ricardo has outgrown this division
- Market Rotor borrow David Ricardo