Abu-Said Eldarushev

Striker - Rotor
31 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Abu-Said Eldarushev

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The Rotor Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

Alexandr Khubulov says Rotor 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Irakly Manelov

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

The wait goes on for Rotor

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

A falling-out at Rotor

Irakly Manelov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Rotor

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikita Chagrov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

A bad afternoon for Rotor against Arsenal Tula

0‑1 to Arsenal Tula, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

The game went through Abu-Said Eldarushev — 6.46

Marked 6.46 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

The dugout

Ilja Rodionov 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

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Vitaliy Zorin to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

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The Rotor Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A falling-out at Rotor

Irakly Manelov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Ilja Safronov was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The terraces

One of their own: Irakly Manelov

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Said Aliev the difference as Rotor beat SKA Khabarovsk

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Said Aliev. 2‑0 against SKA Khabarovsk, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market

Rotor promote Evgeny Pegov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Evgeny Pegov 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.

Market

Gleb Medvedev steps up from the Rotor academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gleb Medvedev 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.

Market

One of our own: Kirill Isayev joins the Rotor first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kirill Isayev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Rotor promote Georgy Abramov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Georgy Abramov 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Abu-Said Eldarushev

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.24, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

  • Squad Rotor are still strangers to each other
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Squad The formation has left Stijn Meijer behind