Leonardo

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Retired
25 Dec 2027
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44 Edition

The Rubin Post

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad31 May 2027

Tempers go at Rubin

Evgeny Staver 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.

Squad31 May 2027

A row about effort at Rubin

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

Loan watch31 May 2027

15 goals on loan for Marvin Çuni

15 appearances at Olimpija Ljubljana and the goals keep coming. Rubin are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

The dugout31 May 2027

The manager makes an example of Denil Maldonado

“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.

The dugout31 May 2027

Luka Milivojević asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market31 May 2027

The Jacques Siwe question follows Rubin around

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

The dugout31 May 2027

When it matters, Alexey Gritsaenko plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad31 May 2027

Questions about Daniil Motorin on the training pitch

The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.

Squad31 May 2027

Lessons booked for Leonardo at Rubin

Nobody writes a headline about a tutor. Nobody has to be told, either, what happens to a signing who spends two years being the man nobody can talk to at lunch.

In brief

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The Rubin Post

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad1 Mar 2027

The knee: Nazmi Gripshi out for 52 days

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

Market1 Mar 2027

Anderson Arroyo 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 Rubin, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom1 Mar 2027

Deadline passes with 2 signed and 2 gone

That is the business done at Rubin until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Words exchanged at Rubin

Igor Vujačić and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets1 Mar 2027

Krylya Sovetov tell Rubin: Evgeny Frolov is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad1 Mar 2027

A row about effort at Rubin

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

Squad1 Mar 2027

Leonardo wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Rubin know it.

The dugout1 Mar 2027

Jacques Siwe knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jacques Siwe trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The terraces1 Mar 2027

The glare is on German Onugkha

Every touch weighed, every quote parsed, every mistake replayed. Some players grow into that; some are quietly finished by it; nobody knows which until afterwards.

In brief

10 Edition

The Rubin Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match30 Sep 2026

Rubin march on in the cup

Sibir are out and Rubin go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Luka Milivojević, 35, rolls back the years — 7.96

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.96 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Rubin

Luka Milivojević 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A row about effort at Rubin

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

Match3 Oct 2026

Luka Milivojević sends Rubin past Lokomotiv Moscow

It finished 1‑0, and it was Luka Milivojević’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Rubin.

Loan watch5 Oct 2026

Marvin Çuni keeps scoring at Olimpija Ljubljana

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

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Ninety minutes of Aleksandar Jukić at his very best

Marked 8.07. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Rubin.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Yegor Teslenko

“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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Pavlos Pantelidis wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Rubin will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

In brief

3 Edition

The Rubin Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nazmi Gripshi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market17 Aug 2026

Rubin turn down Dinamo Moscow for Nazmi Gripshi

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

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Rubin make their move for Baqtiiar Zainutdinov

$6.9M on the table at Dinamo 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.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Rubin make their move for Saminu Abdullahi

$620.0K on the table at KAMAZ. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

No thanks: Matías Arezo rejects the move

Rubin had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Penarol, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Rubin

Igor Vujačić and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Besiktas tell Rubin: Ersin Destanoğlu is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Yegor Teslenko falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Leonardo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Leonardo and Rubin agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief