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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Alikadi Saidov damages knee ligaments — 33 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 33 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.
Market30 Nov 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Philipp Dvoretskov 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 382% of the Murom 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Murom
Rasil Asaidulin 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Maxim Andreev
“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.
Market30 Nov 2026
The Ruslan Bolov story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ruslan Bolov signs something — a contract at Murom or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout30 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Murom. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
40 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Murom lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Murom may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market23 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Murom they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Shamil Gasanov
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Murom
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Denis Faizullin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Murom
Rasil Asaidulin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout23 Nov 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 Rasil Asaidulin is on it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Maxim Andreev 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 Maxim Andreev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Match23 Nov 2026
Continental football is in reach for Murom
18 points from position 4. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Alikadi Saidov damages knee ligaments — 47 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 47 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Murom
Ruslan Bolov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Murom training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Philipp Dvoretskov 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nikita Zheimo signs something — a contract at Murom or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Murom. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout16 Nov 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 Murom, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Murom
Shamil Gasanov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Murom
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Denis Faizullin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout9 Nov 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 Rasul Guseinov is on it.
The dugout9 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Nikita Sergeev 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.
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Steady
Market2 Nov 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Nikita Sergeev: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Murom have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 382% of everything Murom 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Murom
Denis Faizullin 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ruslan Bolov named player of the month
The award goes to Ruslan Bolov, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ruslan Bolov named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Ruslan Bolov is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout2 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Nil Cherkasov 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
Nobody at Murom 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.
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Steady
Market26 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Murom is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Murom training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Philipp Dvoretskov 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Evgeny Livadnov, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Murom
19 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
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 dugout26 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 Rasil Asaidulin is on it.
The dugout26 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.
Match26 Oct 2026
Continental football is in reach for Murom
18 points from position 4. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
Market26 Oct 2026
The name of Denis Faizullin keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Murom say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad19 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Rasul Guseinov, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.26
A mark of 8.26 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match17 Oct 2026
6 goals in one match, Gadjimurad Abdullaev on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Murom and Rodina 2.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Gadjimurad Abdullaev. 4‑2 against Rodina 2, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Philipp Dvoretskov 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 terraces19 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Rasul Guseinov 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ruslan Bolov is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.31 with 10 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.51, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Philipp Dvoretskov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.05. 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.
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Steady
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.19 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match10 Oct 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Gadjimurad Abdullaev’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Murom.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Ruslan Bolov at his very best
Marked 8.99. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Murom.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Murom
Denis Faizullin 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
9 goals and a season average of 7.26. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Murom training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Evgeny Livadnov 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
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑2, already talking about the next one.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
Murom counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Murom now.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Umar Magomedbekov, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match30 Sep 2026
Murom bow out of the cup
Dinamo Moscow go through and Murom go home, 0‑8 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market5 Oct 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 Murom can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
A cup hiding at Dinamo Moscow leaves Murom explaining themselves
0-8, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Murom
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.
Match30 Sep 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Murom and Dinamo Moscow, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Murom
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Philipp Dvoretskov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
572% of the income goes out in wages at Murom
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.
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Steady
Market28 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Murom is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Murom
Ruslan Bolov 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Philipp Dvoretskov 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.67, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Zheimo, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
50 for the club now, each one filed in somebody’s memory with a date and a scoreline. Numbers like this are what supporters argue about in twenty years.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Gadjimurad Abdullaev was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.01. 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Murom caught on 85 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Torpedo Miass scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 3‑3 draw with Torpedo Miass leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
In brief
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Squad
19 new faces, and Murom are still learning each other
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Player ratings
Philipp Dvoretskov runs at them all day
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match19 Sep 2026
Nowhere to hide for Murom
0‑4 against Kuban, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Murom
Shamil Gasanov 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
One of our own: Eduard Eskov joins the Murom first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eduard Eskov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market21 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Konstantin Fomin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Murom training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Denis Faizullin 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 dugout21 Sep 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.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Nobody left the Murom 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Evgeniy Khrenov after 0‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Upbeat
Match12 Sep 2026
3‑0, and Ruslan Bolov took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Murom tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.29 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market14 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Zenit Penza waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Murom is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 12 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at Murom until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Philipp Dvoretskov 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.82 — 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.
Match14 Sep 2026
The half-term report on Murom
Position 4, 10 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Evgeniy Khrenov on a 3‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Murom counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Murom now.
In brief
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Looking ahead
The leaders are next for Murom
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Squad
A Murom teenager takes the young player award
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The dugout
Umar Magomedbekov dropped after a run of poor form
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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 Murom can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 8.16 at 15, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Match5 Sep 2026
6 goals as Murom and Kaluga go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Murom and Kaluga, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Islam Orazaev for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Murom will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Match5 Sep 2026
Kaluga made Murom work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Philipp Dvoretskov 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 terraces7 Sep 2026
He is 15 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 8.64 — 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.
The dugout7 Sep 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.
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Crisis
Match31 Aug 2026
Murom are in real trouble now
Position 6, 4 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Rodina 2 left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 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 Murom this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout31 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Murom are still strangers to each other
19 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout31 Aug 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 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Evgeniy Khrenov to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Danil Shatalov 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 Danil Shatalov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Match19 Aug 2026
Murom march on in the cup
Torpedo Miass are out and Murom go through, 6‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Bogdan Kondramashin did not need any: 8.75, 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 Murom can pretend not to have heard.
Match19 Aug 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Murom and Torpedo Miass in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 9.83 — 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Murom
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Philipp Dvoretskov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Murom
Leonid Kuznetsov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Steady
Match15 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 6‑0 against Avangard, and it could have been more.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.11, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match15 Aug 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Murom and Avangard in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Philipp Dvoretskov 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ruslan Bolov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.55. 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Philipp Dvoretskov 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Murom
Rasil Asaidulin 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 dugout17 Aug 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Evgeniy Khrenov on a 6‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Crisis
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.58 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Murom
Ruslan Bolov 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Torpedo Miass left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Saturn have kept their man, and Murom go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gavriil Abakumov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yegor Shilov 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fedor Korsakov 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dmitriy Devyatkin 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Shamil Gasanov
“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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Crisis
Market3 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 Murom can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ruslan Bolov commits to Murom 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 Murom this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Philipp Dvoretskov 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Murom have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match1 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Murom against Kuban
0‑1 to Kuban, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Nikita Zheimo's contract
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
In brief
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Squad
Murom are still strangers to each other
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Looking ahead
Murom take on the side everybody is chasing