The Rodina Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
Rodina turn down Chernomorets for Ilja Svinov
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Rodina
Iker Pozo 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Yordy Reyna 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Maksim Dolgikh steps up from the Rodina academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Maksim Dolgikh 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Rodina promote Fedor Belyakov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fedor Belyakov 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Pyotr Sychev joins the Rodina first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pyotr Sychev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Rodina
20 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Iker Pozo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Egor Butusov on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Egor Butusov after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
In brief
- The dugout Dmitry Markitesov does not fit this one
- Match Rodina draw a blank against Spartak Kostroma
- Squad A season on the outside for Mikhail Maltsev