Dmitry Sergeev

Defensive Midfielder - Veles
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Dmitry Sergeev

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The Veles Post

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Ivan Nikin out for 68 days

68 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Veles lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Ilja Kuptsov asks to leave Veles

“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.

Market

Terms done: Ionafan Sapozhnikov is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Znamya Truda waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Veles is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad

Ishkhan Geloyan 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 Veles this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Eyes on Vladislav Galkin again

The phone has started ringing about Vladislav Galkin again, and this time the name on the line is Rodina M. Veles are listening politely and promising nothing.

The dugout

Ilja Kuptsov 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.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Dmitry Sergeev — 6.82

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 11 actions, 6.82, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 127% of the Veles income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Player ratings

Alexandr Shubin runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

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The Veles Post

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ivan Nikin damages knee ligaments — 96 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 96 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Oleg Smirnov has said yes to Kolomna

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Veles have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Veles turn down Arsenal Tula for Alexandr Shubin

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

The dugout

Artur Koloskov says Veles went back on their word

“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.

Market

Artur Koloskov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Veles is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Real improvement from Dmitry Kuchugura at Veles

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dmitry Kuchugura is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Dmitry Sadov 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 Veles this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Veles sell Matvey Zakharzhevskiy for $26.0K

Matvey Zakharzhevskiy has left for Chernomorets in a $26.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Dmitry Sergeev

“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.

In brief

  • Boardroom 128% of the income goes out in wages at Veles
  • Boardroom Veles have to sell first
  • The dugout When it matters, Dmitry Kuchugura plays
7 Edition

The Veles Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Dmitry Sergeev delivers — 7.75

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Dmitry Sergeev scored, was marked 7.75, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Boardroom

Veles close the window on a squad of their own making

12 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Match

4 matches without a win for Veles

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Veles are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Dmitry Sadov 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 Veles this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Artem Yegorov will join Veles for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Artem Yegorov has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Veles have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Mohamed Al-Wafi

“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 ratings

Ninety minutes of Zakhar Tarasenko at his very best

Marked 8.30. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Veles.

Match

Veles caught on 94 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Volgar scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Match

Veles share the spoils with Volgar

A 2‑2 draw with Volgar leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief