The Ural Chronicle
Market17 Aug 2026
Silvije Begić attracts admirers
The name of Silvije Begić has come up in conversations Ural were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Pavlos Pantelidis will not be coming to Ural
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Panathinaikos is saying, and nobody at Ural is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Ural rebuffed over Francisco Duque
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cortulua have kept their man, and Ural go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ural
Fanil Sungatulin 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Evgeny Markov did the work nobody counts — 6.44
10 combined actions and 6.44. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Bertrand Fourrier
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bertrand Fourrier, and the manager let it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Fanil Sungatulin
7.48, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Ural had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad17 Aug 2026
No place for Stepan Melnikov in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Ural are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Makar Raspopin on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Makar Raspopin after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
In brief
- Player ratings Roman Akbashev beats them one at a time
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Léo Cordeiro
- Match Ural draw a blank against Sokol