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The Chaika Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market17 Aug 2026

Not going: Yaroslav Rodionov stays at Chaika

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Tyumen had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

$63.0K settles it between the clubs for Khyzyr Appaev

Nart have accepted the money. What Chaika do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Louis Bracke due for a Chaika medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Chaika

Stanislav Biblyk 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.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Chaika agree a free transfer for Vladislav Tereshkin

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Match15 Aug 2026

Chaika cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Door shut on Roman Safronov

Chaika asked and Krasnodar said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Chaika training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vitaly Dunay (Karpenko) 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.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

Chaika supporters have found a favourite in Abdullo Djebov

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Abdullo Djebov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

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The Chaika Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match8 Aug 2026

Chaika taken apart

0‑3 to Chernomorets, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market10 Aug 2026

Akhmat Grozny come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Chaika did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Abdullo Djebov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Abdullo Djebov and Chaika agree another 4 years.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

An offer of $54.0K for Khyzyr Appaev

Chaika have gone to Nart with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Stanislav Biblyk 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 Chaika this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Mark Yelagin joins the Chaika first team

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

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Timofey Kartashov joins the Chaika first team

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

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Prokhor Anisimov joins the Chaika first team

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

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Yegor Gulyaev did the work nobody counts — 6.36

11 combined actions and 6.36. 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.

In brief

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The Chaika Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad3 Aug 2026

Stanislav Biblyk signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Stanislav Biblyk and Chaika agree another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Chaika

Stanislav Biblyk 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.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Chaika make their move for Artem Meshalkin

$45.0K on the table at Dinamo St Petersburg. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Chaika

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

Match1 Aug 2026

A bad afternoon for Chaika against Ufa

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

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Vitaly Dunay (Karpenko) runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Ruslan Chobanov 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Still no ink between Chaika and Stanislav Biblyk

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Chaika, another week without a signature from Stanislav Biblyk.

Market3 Aug 2026

Nobody at Chaika has picked up the phone to Vitaly Dunay (Karpenko)

61 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief