From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market23 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Vologda they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Artem Isik and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Dinamo Vologda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikhail Petrolay 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
A point taken on 92 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A mark of 7.78, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match21 Nov 2026
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 dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Daniil Krivoruchko'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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Krivoruchko, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Artem Isik 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 Vologda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Dinamo Vologda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikhail Petrolay 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Dinamo Vologda told Yaroslav Frolov something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“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 dugout16 Nov 2026
Danil Spodarets has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dinamo Vologda 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.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Alexandr Kravchenko’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Dinamo Vologda needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market16 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nikita Kireev’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Mikhail Lyamzin 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
1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Dinamo Vologda money.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Artem Isik 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Maxim Yefremov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mikhail Petrolay, and the manager let it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Dinamo Vologda told Danila Kalin something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Mikhail Petrolay 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
Danila Yezhkov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dinamo Vologda 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrey Yakovlev
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo Vologda lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match2 Nov 2026
Position 2 and 20 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Dinamo Vologda's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dinamo Vologda has to find a result from somewhere.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The Dinamo Vologda board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Match31 Oct 2026
5 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
280% of the income goes out in wages at Dinamo Vologda
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.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
At 22 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Dinamo Vologda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikhail Petrolay 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.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dinamo Vologda lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market26 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Vologda they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match24 Oct 2026
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match24 Oct 2026
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Dinamo Vologda can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Mikhail Petrolay 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.
Squad26 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 Vologda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Dinamo Vologda
13 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Daniil Krivoruchko'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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Anatoly Belkin chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Andrey Yakovlev damages knee ligaments — 28 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nikita Kireev ran the middle of the pitch — 7.07
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 15 combined actions and a mark of 7.07, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Match17 Oct 2026
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Dinamo Vologda can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad19 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 Vologda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
7.48, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Dinamo Vologda had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Dinamo Vologda told Serhiy Demchenko something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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 dugout19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The formation has left Ruslan Maltsev behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Dinamo Vologda will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
35 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dinamo Vologda lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Artem Isik 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Dinamo Vologda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikhail Petrolay 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 Alexandr Kravchenko, 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 Danila Yezhkov is on it.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Artem Isik’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Dinamo Vologda needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
42 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dinamo Vologda lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match30 Sep 2026
Shinnik ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match5 Oct 2026
Dinamo Vologda refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 17 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Artem Isik 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Gennady Kozlov did the work nobody counts — 6.82
14 combined actions and 6.82. 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 321% of the Dinamo Vologda 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Artem Isik
7.79, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Dinamo Vologda had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Samuel Mašlej was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
Andrey Yakovlev damages knee ligaments — 49 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 49 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match26 Sep 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market28 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Danil Spodarets will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Vologda the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Danil Spodarets has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Artem Isik and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
At 22 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Anton Betyuzhnov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.24. 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Yaroslav Frolov
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Dinamo Vologda
12 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.
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Steady
Market21 Sep 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Kvant moved on, Alexandr Kravchenko reports back to Dinamo Vologda, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Artem Isik 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 Vologda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Samuel Mašlej 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 dugout21 Sep 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.
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 Cherepovets? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
The dugout21 Sep 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
Yaroslav Frolov 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
Dinamo Vologda opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Anton Betyuzhnov stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.
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Upbeat
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Dinamo Vologda people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 13 in, 2 out at Dinamo Vologda
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 13 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Akhmat Grozny have kept their man, and Dinamo Vologda go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mark Kotov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Artem Nikitin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match12 Sep 2026
Three points for Dinamo Vologda, 1‑0 the final word against Irkutsk in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.19, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad14 Sep 2026
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Danila Kalin, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 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 Vologda can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rodina have kept their man, and Dinamo Vologda go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Kirill Grishin 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Matvey Burlakov named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Matvey Burlakov is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Anton Betyuzhnov signs something — a contract at Dinamo Vologda or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Dinamo Vologda than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
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Upbeat
Market31 Aug 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Daniil Krivoruchko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match29 Aug 2026
Saturn left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
13 new faces, and Dinamo Vologda are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Samuel Mašlej 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.
Market31 Aug 2026
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
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Triumph
Match22 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Kolomna, and it could have been more.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Vasily Chekavinskiy takes the afternoon — 8.49
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Vasily Chekavinskiy provided it, and the 8.49 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Vsevolod Bykov at 21 — 8.20
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Vsevolod Bykov did not need any: 8.20, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
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 Vologda can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
Dmitry Dolgov has left for Cherepovets in a $51.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad24 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 Vologda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 19 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Anton Betyuzhnov in the middle of it, and Kolomna unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
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Upbeat
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from PSK Pervorechenskoe for Dmitry Dolgov 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Artem Isik 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Wojciech Szafranek and Dinamo Vologda agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rodina have kept their man, and Dinamo Vologda go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Dinamo St Petersburg paid $18.0K and Dinamo Vologda took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Match15 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“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.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dinamo Vologda, another week without a signature from Gennady Kozlov.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
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 Anatoly Belkin left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Triumph
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
Artem Isik and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match8 Aug 2026
A 2‑0 win over Zenit 2, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mark Ignashevich 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. Vladimir Baranov 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. Fyodor Abdulov 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Samuel Mašlej commits to Dinamo Vologda for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
7.81, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Dinamo Vologda had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andrey Yakovlev and Dinamo Vologda agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Dinamo Vologda have gone to Luki-Energiya 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Artem Isik 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 terraces3 Aug 2026
He is 23 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 ratings3 Aug 2026
Nikita Kireev was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.41. 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 7.20 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.