The Rotor Gazette
The dugout26 Oct 2026
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 ratings26 Oct 2026
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.
Match24 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Match24 Oct 2026
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 ratings26 Oct 2026
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 dugout26 Oct 2026
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 dugout26 Oct 2026
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
- The dugout Rotor pick somebody else ahead of Matteo Voltolini
- Squad Bookings catch up with Yegor Danilkin
- Looking ahead Alexandr Troshechkin goes back to face Fakel