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Upbeat
Market22 Feb 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Torpedo Vladimir waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Dinamo Bryansk is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dinamo Bryansk may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
$6.0K settles it between the clubs for Maxim Malysh
Astrakhan have accepted the money. What Dinamo Bryansk do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
The deal with Veles is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad22 Feb 2027
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 Bryansk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Dinamo Bryansk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timur Akmurzin 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.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
Wages swallow 230% of the Dinamo Bryansk income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The terraces22 Feb 2027
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match20 Feb 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Yegor Teterlev. 2‑0 against Arsenal Tula 2, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Crisis
Squad15 Feb 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market15 Feb 2027
The offer from Legion for Arseny Medvedev was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market15 Feb 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Bryansk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Dinamo Bryansk have done the hard part with Leningradets, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Sergey Terekhov 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
Bogdan Tsybrov scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Rotor 2, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Dinamo Bryansk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timur Akmurzin 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.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
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.
Market15 Feb 2027
The name of Nikolay Alekhin has come up in conversations Dinamo Bryansk were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Steady
Market8 Feb 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Dinamo Bryansk people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Timur Akmurzin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Vladislav Drogunov 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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Timur Akmurzin, and the manager let it.
Match6 Feb 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Dinamo Bryansk, and 14 appearances in 24 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
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 0‑1 Aleksei Tsaryov left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Upbeat
Market1 Feb 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Feb 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Nosta waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Dinamo Bryansk is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Marked 7.86 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market1 Feb 2027
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Legion moved on, Arseny Medvedev reports back to Dinamo Bryansk, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Sergey Gribov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Dinamo Bryansk offered $21.0K; Spartak Tambov said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Match30 Jan 2027
Whatever happens, Dinamo Bryansk do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Dinamo Bryansk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timur Akmurzin 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 terraces1 Feb 2027
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
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Steady
Market25 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market25 Jan 2027
“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 Dinamo Bryansk, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad25 Jan 2027
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 Bryansk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Dinamo Bryansk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timur Akmurzin 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.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages swallow 234% of the Dinamo Bryansk income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Loan watch25 Jan 2027
“I did not go to Angusht to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dinamo Bryansk and fight for my place.” 6 appearances in 24 matches say the rest.
Match23 Jan 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Oleg Shalaev
“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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.98, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Sergey Terekhov 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Timur Akmurzin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces18 Jan 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Sergey Gribov 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Three points for Dinamo Bryansk, 2‑0 the final word against Kvant in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“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.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Daniil Konoplev was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.09. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Aleksei Tsaryov, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alexandr Novikov is on it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
Sergey Terekhov 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Ivan Solovjov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dinamo Bryansk will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Dmitry Pikatov dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Yegor Teterlev 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 Yegor Teterlev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Match9 Jan 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Ryazan came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market11 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Sergey Terekhov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
8 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 7. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Dinamo Bryansk have had the benefit of it.
Market4 Jan 2027
Artem Karpekin has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Bryansk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Sergey Terekhov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Timur Akmurzin 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.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Ivan Rapakov 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 dugout4 Jan 2027
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Sergey Terekhov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dinamo Bryansk will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Dinamo Bryansk now.
Looking ahead4 Jan 2027
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Ryazan.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Dec 2026
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 Bryansk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Timur Akmurzin 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
517% of the income goes out in wages at Dinamo Bryansk
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Match26 Dec 2026
Metallurg made Dinamo Bryansk work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Loan watch28 Dec 2026
“I did not go to Angusht to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dinamo Bryansk and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 20 matches say the rest.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Sergey Gribov
7.59, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Dinamo Bryansk had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Aleksei Tsaryov kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Oleg Shalaev 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
A brace, and Daniil Konoplev takes the afternoon — 8.73
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Daniil Konoplev provided it, and the 8.73 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Timur Akmurzin 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.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match19 Dec 2026
Orel made Dinamo Bryansk work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Aleksei Tsaryov could afford to be generous.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Lev Alim
“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.
Looking ahead21 Dec 2026
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Metallurg.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Alexandr Novikov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dinamo Bryansk will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.
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Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
A muscle injury and 16 days out for Ivan Solovjov
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Dinamo Bryansk will quote 16 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Sergey Gribov 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Timur Akmurzin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match12 Dec 2026
0‑1 to Dinamo St Petersburg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“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.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Dinamo Bryansk, and 7 appearances in 16 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Dmitry Pikatov is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Sergey Gribov, 21, steals the show — 7.65
Marked 7.65 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market7 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Bryansk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Sergey Gribov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Dinamo Bryansk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timur Akmurzin 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 dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Yegor Teterlev
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The young player of the month award goes to a 21-year-old at Dinamo Bryansk who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
Match7 Dec 2026
24 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
Match5 Dec 2026
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Spartak Tambov scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
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Upbeat
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.74 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
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 Bryansk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikita Mankov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 510% of the Dinamo Bryansk income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Dmitry Pikatov
“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.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Angusht to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dinamo Bryansk and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 16 matches say the rest.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match18 Nov 2026
Out, 0‑3 to Spartak Moscow, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
The terraces23 Nov 2026
0-3. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Sergey Terekhov 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Dinamo Bryansk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timur Akmurzin 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Timur Akmurzin
“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.
Boardroom23 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Dinamo Bryansk dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match21 Nov 2026
It needed Alexandr Shlenkin to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Strogino, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
Sergey Terekhov 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.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I watch every Dinamo Bryansk game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Znamya Truda runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Dmitry Pikatov is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Lev Alim
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lev Alim, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Strogino in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Ivan Rapakov 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dinamo Bryansk know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Dinamo Bryansk will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Sergey Gribov, 21, steals the show — 7.69
Marked 7.69 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market9 Nov 2026
Artem Karpekin has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Bryansk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Sergey Terekhov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Sergey Gribov 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sergey Gribov. 2‑0 against Rodina M, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Yegor Teterlev ran the middle of the pitch — 7.37
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 7.37, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.80 on the card, and the Dinamo Bryansk support went home talking about one name.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Zvezda to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dinamo Bryansk and fight for my place.” 8 appearances in 12 matches say the rest.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Sergey Terekhov has become a man the manager trusts
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The dugout
Nikita Mankov knocks on the manager's door
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Timur Akmurzin 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 510% of everything Dinamo Bryansk earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Angusht to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dinamo Bryansk and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 12 matches say the rest.
Match31 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Arsenal Tula 2, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Match31 Oct 2026
4 matches without defeat, and then Arsenal Tula 2. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ivan Solovjov makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Nikita Mankov knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dinamo Bryansk, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Match24 Oct 2026
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 91th minute. Rotor 2 will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.82, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match24 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Dinamo Bryansk right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Sergey Gribov 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Three points for Dinamo Bryansk, 3‑2 the final word against Rotor 2 in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Timur Akmurzin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match24 Oct 2026
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Dinamo Bryansk. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Aleksei Tsaryov, on a 3‑2 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Dinamo Bryansk lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
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Upbeat
Match17 Oct 2026
SKA Khabarovsk 2 will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Dinamo Bryansk were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.22, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Age has not caught Ivan Solovjov yet — 8.28
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.28 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Dinamo Bryansk right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Timur Akmurzin 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.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 4‑1, Aleksei Tsaryov could afford to be generous.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Dmitry Pikatov is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Ivan Solovjov gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ivan Solovjov is on it.
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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Bryansk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Sergey Terekhov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Dinamo Bryansk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timur Akmurzin 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yegor Teterlev, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Sergey Terekhov is on it.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Dinamo Bryansk now.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dinamo Bryansk, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market12 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Sergey Gribov signs something — a contract at Dinamo Bryansk or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Upbeat
Match30 Sep 2026
A 3‑2 win over Nizhniy Novgorod, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match30 Sep 2026
Bogdan Tsybrov wins it after the whistle should have gone
99 minutes played. Bogdan Tsybrov found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Nizhniy Novgorod went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.19, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad5 Oct 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.94, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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 Bryansk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Dinamo Bryansk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timur Akmurzin 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 639% of the Dinamo Bryansk income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
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Crisis
Market28 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Sergey Terekhov 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Timur Akmurzin
“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 dugout28 Sep 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 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Aleksei Tsaryov to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 4.60, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
Zenit Penza next, and one man in the Dinamo Bryansk dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Sergey Terekhov 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Timur Akmurzin 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
7.24, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Dinamo Bryansk had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Kvant? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Alexandr Novikov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dinamo Bryansk will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market21 Sep 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dinamo Bryansk know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 11 in, 6 out at Dinamo Bryansk
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 11 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Bryansk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Dinamo Bryansk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timur Akmurzin 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Vladislav Drogunov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Daniil Konoplev’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Dinamo Bryansk.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 7.71 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Dinamo Bryansk had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Aleksei Tsaryov kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
“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 Dinamo Bryansk, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Timur Akmurzin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Dinamo Bryansk now.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Artem Yermakov 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The name of Sergey Gribov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Dinamo Bryansk say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alexandr Shlenkin is on it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Ryazan, position 2, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Dinamo Bryansk, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Kosmos waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Dinamo Bryansk is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sergey Gribov 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 Aug 2026
Timur Akmurzin 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artem Yermakov, and the manager let it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
When it matters, Lev Alim 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Dinamo Bryansk have let the market know Alexandr Novikov can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Questions about Timur Akmurzin 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.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Arseny Medvedev had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Bryansk can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 7.81 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Sergey Terekhov 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Dinamo Bryansk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timur Akmurzin 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Ivan Solovjov scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Metallurg, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
One of their own: Lev Alim
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.48 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Crisis
Market17 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Sergey Terekhov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match15 Aug 2026
1‑3 to Orel, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Nikita Mankov
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Goalkeepers do not get to make mistakes; they get to make goals. He made one, he knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Timur Akmurzin's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Denis Osokin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
11 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match8 Aug 2026
0‑3 against Dinamo St Petersburg, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market10 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Spartak Nalchik waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Dinamo Bryansk is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Sergey Terekhov 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Timur Akmurzin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Miroslav Lermontov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ivan Gordeev has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Dinamo Bryansk dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
270 appearances across 12 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Dinamo Bryansk know exactly what they have.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nikita Mankov goes up and wins it — 7.96
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.96 for the rest of it.
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer from Chertanovo for Vadim Kondrashov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sergey Terekhov commits to Dinamo Bryansk for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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 Bryansk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Dinamo Bryansk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timur Akmurzin 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Spartak Tambov, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.