The Arsenal Tula Herald
Market24 Aug 2026
Daniil Penchikov 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 Arsenal Tula can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
No thanks: Evgeny Bolotov rejects the move
Arsenal Tula had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Orenburg, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Door shut on Belajdi Pusi
Arsenal Tula asked and Fakel said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Timur Melekestsev 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Arsenal Tula come up short against Ural
Ural left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Arsenal Tula training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Erving Botaka-Yoboma 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Arsenal Tula
Oleg Isaenko and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Arsenal Tula
9 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Yaroslav Bolshakov faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Yaroslav Bolshakov after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
In brief
- Transfer targets Arsenal Tula ask about Kurban Rasulov
- Looking ahead A test against the best for Arsenal Tula
- Market Nikita Karmaev told to find a new club