Dinamo Moscow

Russian Premier League
18 Aug 2026
Tuesday
Process
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The Dinamo Moscow Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Lokomotiv Moscow come back empty-handed

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

Market

Burnley join the queue for Bitello

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

Player ratings

Gonzalo Plata was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Kirill Pechenin

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

Squad

Rubens 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 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Dinamo Moscow

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

Looking ahead

The neighbours are next for Dinamo Moscow

Nothing about the week ahead is ordinary. Spartak Moscow on Saturday, a town that has already started talking about it, and a dressing room that does not need telling what it means.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ivan Sergeev

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivan Sergeev, and the manager let it.

The dugout

The form table has caught Ilya Gubarevich

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

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The Dinamo Moscow Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Dinamo Moscow rebuffed over Fernando Costanza

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Krylya Sovetov have kept their man, and Dinamo Moscow go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Dinamo Moscow turn down Ludogorets for Luis Chávez

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

Market

Gonzalo Plata raises the bar for Dinamo Moscow

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Dinamo Moscow heard it as anything else.

Squad

Bitello signs on for more

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

Market

So close: Victor Okishor’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Spartak Kostroma moved on, Victor Okishor reports back to Dinamo Moscow, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad

Dinamo Moscow lose Andrey Lunev

46 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Dinamo Moscow

Rubens 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.

Market

Akhmat Grozny watching Baqtiiar Zainutdinov

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Danil Glebov

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Danil Glebov, and the manager let it.

In brief

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The Dinamo Moscow Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets

Dinamo Moscow make their move for Alexey Miranchuk

$11.6M on the table at Atlanta United FC. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Igor Leschuk has been here 14 seasons

56 appearances across 14 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Gonzalo Plata

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Konstantin Tyukavin wants more than Dinamo Moscow are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Bitello 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 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Juan Cáceres has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Dinamo Moscow can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Andrey Lunev signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andrey Lunev commits to Dinamo Moscow for another 2 years.

Squad

A row about effort at Dinamo Moscow

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

Market

Akhmat Grozny join the queue for Kurban Rasulov

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

In brief