From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Nov 2027
118 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market15 Nov 2027
“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.
Match13 Nov 2027
7 unbeaten for Kolomna
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Kolomna did not have in the autumn.
Squad15 Nov 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Stanislav Utkin commits to Kolomna for another 3 years.
Squad15 Nov 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match13 Nov 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Kosmos will be the happier side with the point.
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Market1 Nov 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kolomna can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Kolomna
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The medical room confirms 40 days on the sidelines for Alexey Belyanin, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Market25 Oct 2027
“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.
Match23 Oct 2027
Three points for Kolomna, 1-0 the final word against Irkutsk in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad25 Oct 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Eduardo Acosta 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 Kolomna, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad25 Oct 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Kolomna have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market25 Oct 2027
The name of Sergey Yeschenko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Kolomna say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market11 Oct 2027
Rauf Novruzov 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 Kolomna can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Grigory Komovnikov commits to Kolomna for another 3 years.
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Uneasy
Market4 Oct 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kolomna can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Kolomna
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Loan watch4 Oct 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Kolomna, and 1 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
Match2 Oct 2027
A 1-0 win over Chertanovo, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad4 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Nikita Kolesin
“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.
Market4 Oct 2027
Evgeniy Alymov is 19, and Kolomna have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market4 Oct 2027
The clock runs on Nikita Kolesin's contract
11 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market4 Oct 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Crisis
Market27 Sep 2027
“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.
Match25 Sep 2027
A bad afternoon for Kolomna against Zenit 2
0-1 to Zenit 2, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad27 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Georgy Borisov
“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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Uneasy
Squad20 Sep 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match20 Sep 2027
Kolomna sink to position 14
7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market20 Sep 2027
“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.
Match18 Sep 2027
Luki-Energiya made Kolomna work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Saeed Al-Shammari commits to Kolomna for another 3 years.
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Uneasy
Match4 Sep 2027
9 matches without a win for Kolomna
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Kolomna are no longer polite ones.
Market6 Sep 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kolomna can pretend not to have heard.
Market6 Sep 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Kolomna they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match4 Sep 2027
Honours even between Kolomna and Tver
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad6 Sep 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Kolomna have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The captaincy goes to Eduardo Acosta. It is not a job that wins matches, but a dressing room always notices who is given it.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Rowen Muscat is not saying it is over
“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 36 with 210 appearances behind him, and Kolomna have to plan for both answers.
Market6 Sep 2027
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Nikita Shulzhenko leaves Kolomna the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Aug 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market30 Aug 2027
Maxim Dedelev 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 Kolomna can pretend not to have heard.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dmitry Gusarov and Kolomna agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Crisis
Match18 Aug 2027
The cup run ends for Kolomna
0-1 against Angusht, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match21 Aug 2027
Chastening afternoon for Kolomna
A 0-3 beating by Dinamo Vologda was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match21 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Kolomna's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kolomna has to find a result from somewhere.
The terraces23 Aug 2027
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 9 of the 25 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Market23 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Nobody left the Kolomna 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
He is 17, and nobody at Kolomna signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market23 Aug 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Kolomna has been clear about where Ruslan Aderikhin stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Crisis
Market9 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kolomna can pretend not to have heard.
Match7 Aug 2027
5 matches without a win for Kolomna
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Kolomna are no longer polite ones.
Market9 Aug 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Kolomna they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexandr Zotov and Kolomna agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match7 Aug 2027
Baltika 2 left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market9 Aug 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Kolomna will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Steady
Match31 Jul 2027
4 matches without a win for Kolomna
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Kolomna are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexandr Zotov commits to Kolomna for another 2 years.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Steady
Market26 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match24 Jul 2027
A 1-1 draw with Yenisey 2 leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Squad5 Jul 2027
Alexey Belyanin: 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.” Kolomna have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The medical room confirms 36 days on the sidelines for Rowen Muscat, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vyacheslav Novichkov and Kolomna agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market5 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market5 Jul 2027
The name of Sergey Yeschenko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Kolomna say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad21 Jun 2027
121 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sergey Yeschenko and Kolomna agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Steady
Squad7 Jun 2027
The one award nobody else on the pitch can win goes to Sergey Yeschenko, on 18 clean sheets across the season. Keepers wait a career for a season like it.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Astemir Mambetov 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.
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Steady
Market19 Apr 2027
Maxim Dedelev 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 Kolomna can pretend not to have heard.
Market19 Apr 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Kolomna is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad19 Apr 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Steady
Match23 Jan 2027
16 unbeaten for Kolomna
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 16 matches without defeat is a foundation Kolomna did not have in the autumn.
Market25 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad25 Jan 2027
At 21, Danil Anosov is already the best thing here
An average of 7.00 in a first team he is several years too young for. Kolomna have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Match23 Jan 2027
Spartak Moscow 2 made Kolomna work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages eat 108% of everything Kolomna 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Nikita Antipov 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Kolomna has been clear about where Nikita Lukjanenko stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Steady
Match2 Jan 2027
13 unbeaten for Kolomna
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 13 matches without defeat is a foundation Kolomna did not have in the autumn.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad4 Jan 2027
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Kolomna pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yasson Mandzukas commits to Kolomna for another 3 years.
Market4 Jan 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Upbeat
Market9 Nov 2026
“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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Kolomna
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match7 Nov 2026
A 3-1 win over Yenisey 2, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Danil Anosov finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Kolomna have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bulat Musaev: 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.” Kolomna have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market19 Oct 2026
Maxim Dedelev 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 Kolomna can pretend not to have heard.
Squad19 Oct 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Sergey Yeschenko knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Kolomna
0-1 against Kuban Holding, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Mikhail Kanaev 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at Kolomna
Mariano Ghigo arrives at 38 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Match22 Aug 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Dinamo Vologda came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sergey Yeschenko commits to Kolomna for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market10 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Astemir Mambetov may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Kolomna has been clear about where Anatoly-Talmas Muradov stands, which is more than many ever get.