22 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process
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The Dinamo Moscow 2 Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Denis Simonov at 21 — 7.95

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Denis Simonov did not need any: 7.95, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match

Leningradets take the points off Dinamo Moscow 2

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

Spartak Kostroma join the queue for Kurban Rasulov

Add another name to the list: Spartak Kostroma have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kurban Rasulov. The answer from Dinamo Moscow 2 has not changed — yet.

Squad

Words at Dinamo Moscow 2 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stepan Laskin 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Dinamo Moscow 2

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

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 German Mitin left the room before anybody could ask which.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Luka Gagnidze

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

The plan did not have a place for Georgy Tikhomirov

Nobody at Dinamo Moscow 2 is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

Squad

Dmitry Alexandrov has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Dmitry Alexandrov keeps the shirt for now, at Dinamo Moscow 2's convenience rather than his own.

In brief

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The Dinamo Moscow 2 Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Dinamo Moscow 2 let it slip despite Luka Gagnidze

Luka Gagnidze had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Alania were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Dmitry Skopintsev

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Maxim Nikiforov, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.80

A mark of 7.80 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Dinamo Moscow 2 — 7.96

1 for Luka Gagnidze, marked 7.96, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Market

Taraz come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Dinamo Moscow 2 did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Gleb Miroshnichenko stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Gleb Miroshnichenko and Dinamo Moscow 2 agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Denis Simonov 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 Dinamo Moscow 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Rotor join the queue for Dmitry Skopintsev

Add another name to the list: Rotor have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Dmitry Skopintsev. The answer from Dinamo Moscow 2 has not changed — yet.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Gleb Miroshnichenko

“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.

In brief

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The Dinamo Moscow 2 Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dmitry Alexandrov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dmitry Alexandrov and Dinamo Moscow 2 agree another 5 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Dinamo Moscow 2

Denis Simonov 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.

Market

Taraz watching Luka Gagnidze

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Dinamo Moscow 2 have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Words at Dinamo Moscow 2 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stepan Laskin 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.

Market

Talks stall between Dinamo Moscow 2 and Maxim Balakhonov

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Dinamo Moscow 2

27 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

German Mitin on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” German Mitin after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Gleb Miroshnichenko 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 Gleb Miroshnichenko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Player ratings

Gleb Miroshnichenko was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 12. 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.

In brief