Marked for Dmitry Tsypchenko
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces8 Mar 2032
Anger at Torpedo Moscow spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market8 Mar 2032
“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 The request is on a desk at Torpedo Moscow, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market8 Mar 2032
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Torpedo Moscow they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom8 Mar 2032
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Bogdan Rogochiy has agreed terms with Orenburg for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad8 Mar 2032
Artur Galoyan 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.
Squad8 Mar 2032
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Squad8 Mar 2032
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yefim Lysenko and Torpedo Moscow agree another 3 years.
Squad8 Mar 2032
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Alexandr Lomakin will call it something else in private.
Player ratings8 Mar 2032
Marked 7.27. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom1 Mar 2032
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Torpedo Moscow
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad1 Mar 2032
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Mar 2032
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Squad1 Mar 2032
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nahuel Urtasún commits to Torpedo Moscow for another 3 years.
Match28 Feb 2032
A 1‑0 win over Orenburg, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings1 Mar 2032
Marked 7.75 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Torpedo Moscow had the best player on the pitch.
Player ratings1 Mar 2032
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad1 Mar 2032
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Torpedo Moscow told Alexandr Lomakin something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market1 Mar 2032
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Nahuel Urtasún arrives at Torpedo Moscow with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Feb 2032
Mario Ćurić 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Feb 2032
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Player ratings16 Feb 2032
Marked 8.39 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Market16 Feb 2032
The name of Yefim Lysenko has come up in conversations Torpedo Moscow were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Player ratings16 Feb 2032
A performance of 8.22 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings16 Feb 2032
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Feb 2032
The manager makes an example of Alexandr Konev
“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.
Squad16 Feb 2032
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Dmitry Tsypchenko has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces9 Feb 2032
Anger at Torpedo Moscow spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market9 Feb 2032
Ivan Pjaca 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 Torpedo Moscow can pretend not to have heard.
Match7 Feb 2032
No end in sight to Torpedo Moscow's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Torpedo Moscow has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad9 Feb 2032
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexey Kashtanov and Torpedo Moscow agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Feb 2032
Artur Galoyan 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.
Match7 Feb 2032
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad9 Feb 2032
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Player ratings9 Feb 2032
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match7 Feb 2032
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Uneasy
Match26 Jan 2032
Position 16, 21 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.
Market26 Jan 2032
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Torpedo Moscow is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings26 Jan 2032
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Jan 2032
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Squad26 Jan 2032
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Jan 2032
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.34 on the card, and the Torpedo Moscow support went home talking about one name.
Squad26 Jan 2032
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bogdan Rogochiy, and the manager let it.
Match24 Jan 2032
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. SKA Khabarovsk came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad26 Jan 2032
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.
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Crisis
Squad19 Jan 2032
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Jan 2032
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Player ratings19 Jan 2032
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces12 Jan 2032
Anger at Torpedo Moscow spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market12 Jan 2032
“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 Torpedo Moscow, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Jan 2032
Artur Galoyan 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.
Match10 Jan 2032
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dmitry Tsypchenko. 2‑1 against Ufa, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings12 Jan 2032
Ninety minutes of Dmitry Tsypchenko at his very best
Marked 8.32. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Torpedo Moscow.
Player ratings12 Jan 2032
A performance of 8.18 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings12 Jan 2032
Marked 8.10 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad12 Jan 2032
The team sheet said everything about Alexandr Lomakin
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Alexandr Lomakin.
Squad12 Jan 2032
Alexandr Lomakin 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.
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Crisis
Squad5 Jan 2032
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Jan 2032
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Match3 Jan 2032
0‑1 to Rodina, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings5 Jan 2032
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Jan 2032
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.
Squad5 Jan 2032
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Korenblyum, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match29 Dec 2031
17 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match27 Dec 2031
There were 85 minutes on the clock and Rotor had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Torpedo Moscow did not stop to explain themselves.
Market29 Dec 2031
Nikita Kalugin has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Torpedo Moscow they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad29 Dec 2031
Mario Ćurić 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 ratings29 Dec 2031
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad29 Dec 2031
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces15 Dec 2031
Anger at Torpedo Moscow spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match13 Dec 2031
13 matches without a win for Torpedo Moscow
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Torpedo Moscow are no longer polite ones.
Market15 Dec 2031
“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 Torpedo Moscow, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match13 Dec 2031
5 matches without a goal for Torpedo Moscow
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad15 Dec 2031
Mario Ćurić 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.
Squad15 Dec 2031
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Player ratings15 Dec 2031
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings15 Dec 2031
Marked 7.35 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Torpedo Moscow had the best player on the pitch.
Squad15 Dec 2031
Alexandr Lomakin 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.
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Uneasy
Match6 Dec 2031
12 matches without a win for Torpedo Moscow
The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Torpedo Moscow are no longer polite ones.
Match6 Dec 2031
4 matches without a goal for Torpedo Moscow
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad8 Dec 2031
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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 Dec 2031
Bogdan Rogochiy 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 ratings8 Dec 2031
A mark of 7.37, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad8 Dec 2031
Yefim Lysenko named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Yefim Lysenko is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad8 Dec 2031
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Korenblyum, and the manager let it.
Player ratings8 Dec 2031
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match6 Dec 2031
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Sokol defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Crisis
Match29 Nov 2031
11 matches without a win for Torpedo Moscow
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Torpedo Moscow are no longer polite ones.
Match1 Dec 2031
Position 18, 12 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.
Market1 Dec 2031
Nikita Kalugin has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Torpedo Moscow they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad1 Dec 2031
“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.
Squad1 Dec 2031
Artur Galoyan 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.
Match29 Nov 2031
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Torpedo Moscow can tell you which week it ends in.
Match29 Nov 2031
Neftekhimik left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad1 Dec 2031
The manager makes an example of Sergey Borodin
“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.
Player ratings1 Dec 2031
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Match22 Nov 2031
No end in sight to Torpedo Moscow's wait for a win
10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Torpedo Moscow has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Nov 2031
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Nov 2031
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Squad24 Nov 2031
“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 ratings24 Nov 2031
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match22 Nov 2031
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Spartak Kostroma defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad3 Nov 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikolay Boyarkin
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torpedo Moscow lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match3 Nov 2031
Position 17, 10 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.
Match1 Nov 2031
No end in sight to Torpedo Moscow's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Torpedo Moscow has to find a result from somewhere.
Match1 Nov 2031
7 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Market3 Nov 2031
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Torpedo Moscow is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad3 Nov 2031
Artur Galoyan 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.
Squad3 Nov 2031
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Match1 Nov 2031
0‑1 to Orenburg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad3 Nov 2031
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad27 Oct 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikolay Boyarkin
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torpedo Moscow lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match25 Oct 2031
No end in sight to Torpedo Moscow's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Torpedo Moscow has to find a result from somewhere.
Match25 Oct 2031
6 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad27 Oct 2031
Mario Ćurić 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Oct 2031
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Squad27 Oct 2031
Vadim Gapeev 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.
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Uneasy
Squad13 Oct 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikolay Boyarkin
38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torpedo Moscow lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match11 Oct 2031
4 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.
Squad13 Oct 2031
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match11 Oct 2031
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Torpedo Moscow can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad13 Oct 2031
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Squad13 Oct 2031
The manager has not finished forgetting Dmitry Tsypchenko's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Crisis
Squad6 Oct 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikolay Boyarkin
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torpedo Moscow lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match1 Oct 2031
Out, 0‑1 to Dinamo Vologda, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings6 Oct 2031
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match6 Oct 2031
Every point is an argument now for Torpedo Moscow
Position 16 and 8 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market6 Oct 2031
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Torpedo Moscow is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market6 Oct 2031
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad6 Oct 2031
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dmitry Tsypchenko and Torpedo Moscow agree another 3 years.
Squad6 Oct 2031
Artur Galoyan 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.
Squad6 Oct 2031
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces22 Sep 2031
Anger at Torpedo Moscow spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad22 Sep 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikolay Boyarkin
59 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torpedo Moscow lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market22 Sep 2031
Ivan Pjaca 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 Torpedo Moscow can pretend not to have heard.
Squad22 Sep 2031
Mario Ćurić 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 ratings22 Sep 2031
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad22 Sep 2031
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Player ratings22 Sep 2031
A mark of 7.95, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad22 Sep 2031
The manager makes an example of Bogdan Rogochiy
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match13 Sep 2031
29 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.
Match13 Sep 2031
19 matches without a goal for Torpedo Moscow
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 19 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad15 Sep 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikolay Boyarkin
66 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torpedo Moscow lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings15 Sep 2031
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad15 Sep 2031
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Sep 2031
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match30 Aug 2031
27 matches without a win for Torpedo Moscow
The run now stands at 27, and the questions being asked around Torpedo Moscow are no longer polite ones.
Match30 Aug 2031
17 matches without a goal for Torpedo Moscow
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 17 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad1 Sep 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikolay Boyarkin
80 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torpedo Moscow lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad1 Sep 2031
A fracture rules Yegor Ananjev out for 22 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torpedo Moscow will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market1 Sep 2031
“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 Torpedo Moscow, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Sep 2031
Mario Ćurić 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match23 Aug 2031
No end in sight to Torpedo Moscow's wait for a win
26 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Torpedo Moscow has to find a result from somewhere.
Match23 Aug 2031
16 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
The terraces25 Aug 2031
Anger at Torpedo Moscow spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad25 Aug 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikolay Boyarkin
87 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torpedo Moscow lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad25 Aug 2031
A fracture rules Yegor Ananjev out for 29 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torpedo Moscow will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad25 Aug 2031
Artur Galoyan 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.
Squad25 Aug 2031
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Match23 Aug 2031
Fakel left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings25 Aug 2031
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Match9 Aug 2031
24 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.
Match9 Aug 2031
14 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad11 Aug 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikolay Boyarkin
101 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torpedo Moscow lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad11 Aug 2031
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad11 Aug 2031
Vladislav Kucheiko 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.
Squad11 Aug 2031
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Market11 Aug 2031
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Torpedo Moscow have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings11 Aug 2031
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.75 on the card, and the Torpedo Moscow support went home talking about one name.
Player ratings11 Aug 2031
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Match2 Aug 2031
23 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.
Match2 Aug 2031
13 matches without a goal for Torpedo Moscow
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 13 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad4 Aug 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikolay Boyarkin
108 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torpedo Moscow lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad4 Aug 2031
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market4 Aug 2031
Ruslan Rotan 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 Torpedo Moscow can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Aug 2031
Mario Ćurić 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Aug 2031
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Player ratings4 Aug 2031
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings4 Aug 2031
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.33 on the card, and the Torpedo Moscow support went home talking about one name.
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Crisis
Match19 Jul 2031
21 matches without a win for Torpedo Moscow
The run now stands at 21, and the questions being asked around Torpedo Moscow are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Jul 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikolay Boyarkin
122 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torpedo Moscow lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match19 Jul 2031
11 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Mario Ćurić 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom21 Jul 2031
6 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Market21 Jul 2031
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vladislav Kozhemyakin has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market21 Jul 2031
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Georgy Skvortsov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Jul 2031
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad14 Jul 2031
A muscle injury sidelines Alexey Kashtanov for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Torpedo Moscow will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad14 Jul 2031
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces30 Jun 2031
The mood at Torpedo Moscow has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad30 Jun 2031
A fracture rules Alexandr Lomakin out for 60 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torpedo Moscow will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market30 Jun 2031
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match23 Jun 2031
Position 16, 5 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.
Squad23 Jun 2031
A fracture rules Alexandr Lomakin out for 67 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torpedo Moscow will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad23 Jun 2031
Vladislav Kucheiko 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.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Jun 2031
A fracture rules Alexandr Lomakin out for 81 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torpedo Moscow will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market9 Jun 2031
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad9 Jun 2031
Artur Galoyan 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces2 Jun 2031
The mood at Torpedo Moscow has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad2 Jun 2031
A fracture rules Alexandr Lomakin out for 88 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torpedo Moscow will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom2 Jun 2031
The caretaker keeps it: Interim Coach confirmed
A month of looking elsewhere ended where it started. He already knows every name in the building; the rest of it he now has to prove in public.
Market2 Jun 2031
“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 Torpedo Moscow, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad2 Jun 2031
Mario Ćurić 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Jun 2031
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 May 2031
A fracture rules Alexandr Lomakin out for 102 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torpedo Moscow will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market19 May 2031
Only the photograph left for Kirill Suslov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kirill Suslov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Torpedo Moscow the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 May 2031
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Squad12 May 2031
A fracture rules Alexandr Lomakin out for 109 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torpedo Moscow will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market12 May 2031
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad12 May 2031
Artur Galoyan 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.
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Crisis
Squad28 Apr 2031
A fracture rules Alexandr Lomakin out for 123 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torpedo Moscow will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match28 Apr 2031
Every point is an argument now for Torpedo Moscow
Position 16 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Boardroom28 Apr 2031
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Torpedo Moscow is running low.
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Crisis
Market21 Apr 2031
Kirill Suslov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Torpedo Moscow they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom21 Apr 2031
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Kirill Suslov has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad21 Apr 2031
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Crisis
The terraces7 Apr 2031
The mood at Torpedo Moscow has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market7 Apr 2031
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torpedo Moscow can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Apr 2031
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
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Crisis
Match31 Mar 2031
Every point is an argument now for Torpedo Moscow
Position 16 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Boardroom31 Mar 2031
Pressure builds in the Torpedo Moscow boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad31 Mar 2031
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Torpedo Moscow may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
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Crisis
Squad17 Mar 2031
Vladislav Kucheiko 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.
Squad17 Mar 2031
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Squad17 Mar 2031
The manager makes an example of Maxim Mishutin
“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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Crisis
The terraces10 Mar 2031
The mood at Torpedo Moscow has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad10 Mar 2031
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Torpedo Moscow may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market10 Mar 2031
Ruslan Rotan 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 Torpedo Moscow can pretend not to have heard.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad24 Feb 2031
Mario Ćurić 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Feb 2031
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Squad24 Feb 2031
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Crisis
Squad17 Feb 2031
Artur Galoyan 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.
Squad17 Feb 2031
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Squad17 Feb 2031
30 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Crisis
Match1 Feb 2031
19 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.
Match3 Feb 2031
Every point is an argument now for Torpedo Moscow
Position 16 and 4 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Boardroom3 Feb 2031
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Torpedo Moscow
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Boardroom3 Feb 2031
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Torpedo Moscow can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Match1 Feb 2031
9 matches without a goal for Torpedo Moscow
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 9 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad3 Feb 2031
Artur Galoyan 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.
Squad3 Feb 2031
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexandr Lomakin and Torpedo Moscow agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Feb 2031
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Match1 Feb 2031
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Crisis
Match11 Jan 2031
No end in sight to Torpedo Moscow's wait for a win
16 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Torpedo Moscow has to find a result from somewhere.
The terraces13 Jan 2031
The mood at Torpedo Moscow has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad13 Jan 2031
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match11 Jan 2031
6 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad13 Jan 2031
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Jan 2031
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Match11 Jan 2031
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad13 Jan 2031
“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.
Player ratings13 Jan 2031
Successful dribbles: 7. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Match21 Dec 2030
13 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.
Squad23 Dec 2030
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market23 Dec 2030
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torpedo Moscow can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Dec 2030
Mario Ćurić 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.
Squad23 Dec 2030
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Match21 Dec 2030
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Torpedo Moscow can tell you which week it ends in.
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Crisis
Match30 Nov 2030
10 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.
Squad2 Dec 2030
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 69 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market2 Dec 2030
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torpedo Moscow can pretend not to have heard.
Market2 Dec 2030
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Torpedo Moscow is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Dec 2030
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexey Kashtanov and Torpedo Moscow agree another 2 years.
Squad2 Dec 2030
Mario Ćurić 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Dec 2030
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Match30 Nov 2030
1‑2 to Dinamo Moscow, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings2 Dec 2030
Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Match11 Nov 2030
Every point is an argument now for Torpedo Moscow
Position 16 and 2 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad11 Nov 2030
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 90 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market11 Nov 2030
Yegor Sysoev 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 Torpedo Moscow can pretend not to have heard.
Match9 Nov 2030
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Torpedo Moscow are no longer polite ones.
Squad11 Nov 2030
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Squad11 Nov 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces21 Oct 2030
Anger at Torpedo Moscow spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad21 Oct 2030
A fracture rules Nikolay Boyarkin out for 111 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torpedo Moscow will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market21 Oct 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad21 Oct 2030
Mario Ćurić 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 Oct 2030
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Player ratings21 Oct 2030
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Match28 Sep 2030
20 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.
Match28 Sep 2030
1‑4 against Spartak Moscow, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad30 Sep 2030
Mario Ćurić 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Sep 2030
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Boardroom30 Sep 2030
Nobody left the Torpedo Moscow dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad30 Sep 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Kalugin, and the manager let it.
Squad30 Sep 2030
Mario Ćurić has to sit this one out
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Torpedo Moscow lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Player ratings30 Sep 2030
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Torpedo Moscow were going nowhere until he came on.
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Crisis
Match7 Sep 2030
17 matches without a win for Torpedo Moscow
The run now stands at 17, and the questions being asked around Torpedo Moscow are no longer polite ones.
Market9 Sep 2030
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torpedo Moscow can pretend not to have heard.
Market9 Sep 2030
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Torpedo Moscow they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad9 Sep 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Artur Galoyan commits to Torpedo Moscow for another 3 years.
Squad9 Sep 2030
Mario Ćurić 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.
Squad9 Sep 2030
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Match7 Sep 2030
Zenit left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad9 Sep 2030
The manager makes an example of Vadim Gapeev
“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.
Market9 Sep 2030
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Bogdan Rogochiy may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Uneasy
Match17 Aug 2030
No end in sight to Torpedo Moscow's wait for a win
14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Torpedo Moscow has to find a result from somewhere.
Market19 Aug 2030
“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 Torpedo Moscow, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Alexandr Mironov: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Torpedo Moscow have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market19 Aug 2030
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Torpedo Moscow they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Mario Ćurić 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Match17 Aug 2030
3 matches without a goal for Torpedo Moscow
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad19 Aug 2030
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Torpedo Moscow, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Match17 Aug 2030
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Dinamo Moscow defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Crisis
The terraces29 Jul 2030
Anger at Torpedo Moscow spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match27 Jul 2030
No end in sight to Torpedo Moscow's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Torpedo Moscow has to find a result from somewhere.
Market29 Jul 2030
“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 Torpedo Moscow, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market29 Jul 2030
The offer from Baltika for Alexandr Chupaev was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad29 Jul 2030
Artur Galoyan 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.
Squad29 Jul 2030
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Match27 Jul 2030
Rubin left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad29 Jul 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vadim Gapeev, and the manager let it.
Squad29 Jul 2030
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Match20 Jul 2030
10 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.
Market22 Jul 2030
“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 Torpedo Moscow, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings22 Jul 2030
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad22 Jul 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom22 Jul 2030
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Torpedo Moscow
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad22 Jul 2030
Mario Ćurić 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.
Match20 Jul 2030
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad22 Jul 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mario Ćurić, and the manager let it.
Market22 Jul 2030
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yefim Lopatin has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
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Market8 Jul 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market8 Jul 2030
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Torpedo Moscow is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad8 Jul 2030
Mario Ćurić 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Jul 2030
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexandr Lomakin and Torpedo Moscow agree another 2 years.
Squad8 Jul 2030
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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 Jul 2030
Too much change too quickly at Torpedo Moscow
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Crisis
The terraces1 Jul 2030
Anger at Torpedo Moscow spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market1 Jul 2030
“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 Torpedo Moscow, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom1 Jul 2030
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Andrei Lebedev has agreed terms with Dinamo Vologda for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad1 Jul 2030
Mario Ćurić 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.
Squad1 Jul 2030
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
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Crisis
Market17 Jun 2030
Ruslan Apekov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Torpedo Moscow they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market17 Jun 2030
“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 Torpedo Moscow, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad17 Jun 2030
Mikhail Volkov 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.
Squad17 Jun 2030
Georgy Krylov gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Georgy Krylov has just signed for Torpedo Moscow, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad17 Jun 2030
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Market17 Jun 2030
Rubin are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Torpedo Moscow will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Market10 Jun 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market10 Jun 2030
Only the photograph left for Kirill Gotsuk
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kirill Gotsuk will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Torpedo Moscow the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad10 Jun 2030
Mario Ćurić 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Jun 2030
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Squad10 Jun 2030
Mikhail Volkov 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.
Squad10 Jun 2030
Ruslan Apekov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Torpedo Moscow will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Crisis
The terraces3 Jun 2030
Anger at Torpedo Moscow spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market3 Jun 2030
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torpedo Moscow can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Jun 2030
Mario Ćurić 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.
Squad3 Jun 2030
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Squad3 Jun 2030
Torpedo Moscow will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Squad3 Jun 2030
Mikhail Volkov 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 Torpedo Moscow, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Boardroom27 May 2030
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Torpedo Moscow
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match27 May 2030
16 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market27 May 2030
“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 Torpedo Moscow, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market27 May 2030
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Torpedo Moscow they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad27 May 2030
Mario Ćurić 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 May 2030
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
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Crisis
Market20 May 2030
Ruslan Apekov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Torpedo Moscow they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market20 May 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad20 May 2030
Mario Ćurić 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.
Squad20 May 2030
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Squad20 May 2030
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Anatoly Chesnokov and Torpedo Moscow agree another 3 years.
Squad20 May 2030
Artur Galoyan 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 Artur Galoyan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Market13 May 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market13 May 2030
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Torpedo Moscow is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom13 May 2030
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Kirill Gotsuk has agreed terms with Krasnodar for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad13 May 2030
Mario Ćurić 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 May 2030
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Squad13 May 2030
Artur Galoyan 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 Torpedo Moscow, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
The terraces6 May 2030
Anger at Torpedo Moscow spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market6 May 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad6 May 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexey Kashtanov and Torpedo Moscow agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad6 May 2030
Mario Ćurić 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.
Squad6 May 2030
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Squad6 May 2030
Sadyg Bagiev has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Torpedo Moscow will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Crisis
Boardroom29 Apr 2030
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Torpedo Moscow
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match29 Apr 2030
Every point is an argument now for Torpedo Moscow
Position 14 and 16 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market29 Apr 2030
“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 Torpedo Moscow, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market29 Apr 2030
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andre Changunda will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Torpedo Moscow the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad29 Apr 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Apr 2030
Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
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Crisis
Market22 Apr 2030
“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 Torpedo Moscow, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market22 Apr 2030
Only the photograph left for Ruslan Apekov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ruslan Apekov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Torpedo Moscow the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad22 Apr 2030
Mario Ćurić 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.
Squad22 Apr 2030
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Nathan Guillemain has just signed for Torpedo Moscow, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad22 Apr 2030
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tsypchenko 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.
Squad22 Apr 2030
A muscle injury sidelines Nikita Kalugin for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Torpedo Moscow will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.