Max Dziov

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Process

Marked for Max Dziov

215 Edition

The CSKA Moscow Gazette

9 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

CSKA Moscow make their move for Kirill Glebov

$5.7M on the table at Lokomotiv Moscow. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Yegor Besaev agrees terms with SKA Khabarovsk

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around CSKA Moscow people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Boardroom

CSKA Moscow write off $732.5K on Max Dziov

He arrived for a fee and leaves for a fraction of it. $732.5K of what CSKA Moscow paid for Max Dziov is money the club will not see again, and the boardroom will be asked about it for two seasons.

Market

Maxim Mukhin comes home

The shirt still fits. Maxim Mukhin is back at CSKA Moscow, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Market

Saúl Guarirapa puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at CSKA Moscow, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 22 in, 15 out at CSKA Moscow

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 22 arrived, 15 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market

CSKA Moscow sign Aleksa Đurasović for $1.4M

The paperwork is done: Aleksa Đurasović joins from Lokomotiv Moscow in a deal worth $1.4M. Now comes the harder part.

Squad

Maxim Mukhin gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Maxim Mukhin has just signed for CSKA Moscow, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Maxim Glushenkov stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Maxim Glushenkov and CSKA Moscow agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

  • Squad Christian falls out with a teammate over standards
  • Squad Tempers go at CSKA Moscow
  • The dugout Christian has become a man the manager trusts
Back issues
202 Edition

The CSKA Moscow Gazette

10 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Nikita Iosifov damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.

Match

CSKA Moscow are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 63 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Evgeny Latyshonok is on his way

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

Market

Bamba Dieng raises the bar for CSKA Moscow

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at CSKA Moscow heard it as anything else.

Squad

Ángelo Preciado 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 CSKA Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

International break empties CSKA Moscow

5 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.

Squad

Evgeni Abakumov signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Evgeni Abakumov commits to CSKA Moscow for another 3 years.

The dugout

Christian gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Christian is on it.

Market

The Bamba Dieng question follows CSKA Moscow around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Bamba Dieng’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

189 Edition

The CSKA Moscow Gazette

11 Mar 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Only the photograph left for Mohamed Azzi

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mohamed Azzi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around CSKA Moscow the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Bamba Dieng wants more than CSKA Moscow are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Market

Fernando Costanza wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Ivan Oblyakov 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 CSKA Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Dmitry Barinov signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dmitry Barinov commits to CSKA Moscow for another 3 years.

Squad

Words at CSKA Moscow training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Evgeny Latyshonok 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.

Loan watch

Saúl Guarirapa keeps scoring at Rubin

27 appearances away from home and 13 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

The dugout

Dmitry Barinov 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.

The dugout

Bamba Dieng has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at CSKA 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.

In brief

174 Edition

The CSKA Moscow Gazette

26 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten CSKA Moscow

The unbeaten run reaches 17. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

CSKA Moscow through in the cup

A 3‑0 win over Spartak Tambov, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

Nobody above CSKA Moscow

First, on 35 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.

Market

Max Dziov asks to leave CSKA Moscow

“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.

Player ratings

Vintage Moussa Dembélé — 7.88

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.88, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market

Bamba Dieng raises the bar for CSKA Moscow

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at CSKA Moscow heard it as anything else.

Player ratings

Christian beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

CSKA Moscow make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Match

Moussa Dembélé at the heart of a fast CSKA Moscow start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Moussa Dembélé in the middle of it, and Spartak Tambov unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

In brief