From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market15 Mar 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.
Market15 Mar 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Tver is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad15 Mar 2027
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Savely Borodin, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Tver
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yegor Ponomarev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Tver
Roman Kopylov 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.
Transfer targets15 Mar 2027
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Tver will try again when the window opens; Druzhba may not be selling by then.
The dugout15 Mar 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.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Kirill Zakharov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tver 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.
Market15 Mar 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nikita Yeremenko signs something — a contract at Tver or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Market8 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tver can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Kirill Dudkin 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.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
The window shuts on the Sergey Makarov deal
Tver ran out of time with Rotor. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Market8 Mar 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniil Bocharov 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.
Squad8 Mar 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 Tver this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Andrey Shevtsov
“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.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
$143.1K taken back off the Tver table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Market8 Mar 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Vyacheslav Shataev’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Muslim Nabiev 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 Muslim Nabiev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Market1 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tver can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Pressure builds in the Tver boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Transfer targets1 Mar 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Druzhba; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Window shuts: 1 in, 0 out at Tver
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 1 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets1 Mar 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Tver have done the hard part with Rotor, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad1 Mar 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 Tver this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at Tver training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yegor Ponomarev 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 targets1 Mar 2027
Tver ran out of time with Irtysh. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniil Sokolov, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market22 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.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Tver have done the hard part with Spartak Nalchik, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Tver
Kirill Dudkin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Tver
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yegor Ponomarev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
A loan enquiry to Salyut: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad22 Feb 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Stepan Barkov and Tver agree another 3 years.
The dugout22 Feb 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.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
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 dugout22 Feb 2027
Daniil Sokolov 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 Tver, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market15 Feb 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 Tver, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market15 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Muslim Nabiev
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Muslim Nabiev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tver the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Everything agreed with Volgar, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad15 Feb 2027
44 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Tver training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kirill Dudkin 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Tver
Roman Kopylov 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 dugout15 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Muslim Nabiev, and the manager let it.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
A promise honoured at Tver
Something was said to Kirill Zakharov and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Crisis
Squad8 Feb 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.70 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market8 Feb 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 Tver, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Roman Kopylov, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.74
A mark of 7.74 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
4 matches without a win for Tver
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Tver are no longer polite ones.
Match6 Feb 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Tver and Torpedo Vladimir, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Artem Fomin 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 Tver this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Spartak Nalchik have kept their man, and Tver go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Uneasy
Market1 Feb 2027
FCI Tallinn come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Tver did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Yegor Ponomarev
17 goals and a season average of 7.32 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Match30 Jan 2027
3 matches without a goal for Tver
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Tver
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yegor Ponomarev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Yeremenko, and the manager let it.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
“I did not go to Uralets-TS to sit and watch. I want to come back to Tver and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Tver
Grigory Kosenko 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
Nart have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad1 Feb 2027
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Grigory Kosenko has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
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Crisis
Match23 Jan 2027
Nowhere to hide for Tver
0‑3 against Kosmos, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market25 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tver can pretend not to have heard.
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 Tver this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Jan 2027
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Inquest at Tver
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Tver
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Muslim Nabiev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“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 dugout25 Jan 2027
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market18 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tver can pretend not to have heard.
Market18 Jan 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Tver is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Tver training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yegor Ponomarev 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Yenisey 2 left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Tver
Klim Perekalskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Tver, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Market11 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 Tver, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Tver — 7.86
1 for Anton Khomyakov, marked 7.86, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Tver
Kirill Dudkin 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Klim Perekalskiy is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ivan Pugachevskiy and Tver agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Tver
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yegor Ponomarev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match9 Jan 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Anton Khomyakov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Tver.
The dugout11 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.” Prokhor Medvedev, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Crisis
Match2 Jan 2027
Irkutsk punish Tver for switching off
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Yegor Ponomarev will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Tver escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The match ball belongs to Yegor Ponomarev, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Squad4 Jan 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Tver will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad4 Jan 2027
17 goals and a season average of 7.36. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match2 Jan 2027
Beaten 3‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad4 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 Tver this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout4 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.
Loan watch4 Jan 2027
“I did not go to Uralets-TS to sit and watch. I want to come back to Tver and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.
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Crisis
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Dec 2026
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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Tver
Kirill Dudkin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Tver training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yegor Ponomarev 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
A bad afternoon for Tver against Saturn
0‑2 to Saturn, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
106% of the income goes out in wages at Tver
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 dugout28 Dec 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 Prokhor Medvedev to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout28 Dec 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.
Squad28 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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Steady
Match19 Dec 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Kolomna, and it could have been more.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.98, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market21 Dec 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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
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 7.79 for the rest of it.
Market21 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Muslim Nabiev
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Muslim Nabiev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tver the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad21 Dec 2026
14 goals and a season average of 7.31. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
At 23 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 ratings21 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.10, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Boris Tsygankov 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.
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Uneasy
Match12 Dec 2026
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Yegor Ponomarev scored in the 88th minute, Chertanovo had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Tver took the lot.
The dugout14 Dec 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
The drought breaks for Tver
6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Chertanovo were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Yegor Ponomarev
12 goals and a season average of 7.26 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Match12 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Yegor Ponomarev. 2‑1 against Chertanovo, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces14 Dec 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Yegor Ponomarev was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.73. 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
One of our own: Ilya Gordeev joins the Tver first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ilya Gordeev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Tver
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Muslim Nabiev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Match5 Dec 2026
Chastening afternoon for Tver
A 1‑4 beating by Zenit 2 was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market7 Dec 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 Tver, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match5 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Tver's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Tver has to find a result from somewhere.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tver may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Yegor Ponomarev 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 dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vyacheslav Shataev, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Yegor Ponomarev
11 goals and a season average of 7.21 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 8.12 — 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.
In brief
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Boardroom
Nobody left the Tver dressing room in a hurry
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Loan watch
Islam Zangiev wants to come home
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Uneasy
Match28 Nov 2026
Nikita Yeremenko had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Luki-Energiya were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
A brace, and Nikita Yeremenko takes the afternoon — 9.00
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nikita Yeremenko provided it, and the 9.00 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Tver's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Tver has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Tver training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yegor Ponomarev 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 terraces30 Nov 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 ratings30 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.48 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
108% of the income goes out in wages at Tver
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.
Match28 Nov 2026
A 3‑3 draw with Luki-Energiya leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
In brief
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Squad
Words exchanged at Tver
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Squad
Vasily Lobanov signs on for more
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market23 Nov 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 Tver can pretend not to have heard.
Market23 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Tver is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Tver
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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Tver
Kirill Dudkin 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 ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Muslim Nabiev 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Prokhor Medvedev was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Tver dressing room was either.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match21 Nov 2026
Tver draw a blank against Zvezda
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Zvezda defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Tver
Kirill Dudkin 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Match16 Nov 2026
The half-term report on Tver
Position 11, 12 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniil Sokolov, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Prokhor Medvedev after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Tver
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Muslim Nabiev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Zvezda in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Uneasy
Market9 Nov 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 Tver can pretend not to have heard.
Squad9 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 Tver this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Boris Tsygankov and Tver agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch9 Nov 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 Tver, and 1 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrey Shevtsov, and the manager let it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Muslim Nabiev has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tver 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 ahead9 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Spartak Moscow 2 in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout9 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 Tver, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market9 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tver know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
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
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tver have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match31 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 108% of the Tver 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Tver
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Muslim Nabiev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Marat Bairamov
“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 dugout2 Nov 2026
Sergey Tormashev 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.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Tver
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Torpedo Vladimir kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Tver will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A brace, and Yegor Ponomarev takes the afternoon — 8.89
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Yegor Ponomarev provided it, and the 8.89 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Market26 Oct 2026
Muslim Nabiev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Tver they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vyacheslav Shataev, and the manager let it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 2‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Tver training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrey Shevtsov 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
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match17 Oct 2026
Three points for Tver, 2‑1 the final word against Baltika 2 in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Yegor Ponomarev 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.69 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sergey Tormashev commits to Tver for another 3 years.
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 2‑1, Prokhor Medvedev could afford to be generous.
The dugout19 Oct 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.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Torpedo Vladimir in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Tver
5 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.
Market12 Oct 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 Tver, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Klim Perekalskiy is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Evgeniy Goryachev and Tver agree another 3 years.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
7.79, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Tver had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every Tver game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Uralets-TS runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Tver
Klim Perekalskiy 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.
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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
Nowhere to hide for Tver
1‑5 against Yenisey 2, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market5 Oct 2026
Kirill Dudkin hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tver can pretend not to have heard.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Tver
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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Tver are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Tver
Kirill Dudkin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match3 Oct 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Tver and Yenisey 2 in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 131% of the Tver 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Tver 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑5, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Crisis
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market28 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Muslim Nabiev
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Muslim Nabiev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tver the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Tver
Kirill Dudkin 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Tver
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Match26 Sep 2026
Cherepovets left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout28 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.
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 Prokhor Medvedev to a room that had heard them before.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tver are still strangers to each other
6 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
A promise honoured at Tver
Something was said to Nikita Lyutikov and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
Nowhere to hide for Tver
1‑6 against Irkutsk, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad21 Sep 2026
There were 7 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Tver
Kirill Dudkin 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Nikita Yeremenko among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Nikita Yeremenko on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Tver and Irkutsk.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Mashuk have kept their man, and Tver go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Nobody left the Tver 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
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑6 Prokhor Medvedev left the room before anybody could ask which.
Market21 Sep 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tver know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout21 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.
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Crisis
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.14, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Tver close the window on a squad of their own making
10 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Match12 Sep 2026
Saturn take the points off Tver
Beaten 3‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Match12 Sep 2026
Kirill Dudkin among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Kirill Dudkin on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Tver and Saturn.
Transfer targets14 Sep 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.
The terraces14 Sep 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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Tver ran out of time with Irtysh. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Daniil Sokolov
“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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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.40 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 8.17 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market7 Sep 2026
Muslim Nabiev hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tver can pretend not to have heard.
Match5 Sep 2026
Kolomna made Tver work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Barnaul have kept their man, and Tver go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Yegor Ponomarev 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.
The dugout7 Sep 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.
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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Uneasy
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 Tver, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Tver is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Tver
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Tver are no longer polite ones.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Tver asked and Tyumen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
A goal on 89 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 7.93. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Tver
6 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
Tver bow out of the cup
Volgar go through and Tver go home, 3‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.39, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Kirill Zakharov at 19 — 7.91
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Kirill Zakharov did not need any: 7.91, 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 Tver can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 30 days on the sidelines for Vyacheslav Shataev, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Aug 2026
7 goals as Tver and Volgar go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Tver and Volgar, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
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
Tver come up short against Zenit 2
Zenit 2 left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Kirill Dudkin had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market17 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Tver have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Volna, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad17 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 Tver this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$50.0K was the most the club would pay and Rubin Yalta were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
The terraces17 Aug 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Dinamo Bryansk: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Prokhor Medvedev after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Upbeat
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Kirill Zakharov at 19 — 8.27
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Kirill Zakharov did not need any: 8.27, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market10 Aug 2026
Muslim Nabiev hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tver can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$700.00 settles it between the clubs for Yury Mozzhukhin
Saturn have accepted the money. What Tver do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market10 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Kirill Dudkin again, and this time the name on the line is Kaluga. Tver are listening politely and promising nothing.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $50.0K for Ilja Glebov
Tver have gone to Rubin Yalta 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Tver
Kirill Dudkin 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Tver asked and Orenburg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match8 Aug 2026
Three points for Tver, 2‑1 the final word against Zvezda in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces10 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.
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Crisis
Market3 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kirill Dudkin commits to Tver for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Tver
Kirill Dudkin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match1 Aug 2026
Spartak Moscow 2 left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Uralets-TS have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Islam Zangiev. The answer from Tver has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Tver 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 dugout3 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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Prokhor Medvedev to a room that had heard them before.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Nikita Lyutikov
“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.