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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
Marat Kulaev breaks a bone — 84 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 84 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market28 Dec 2026
Ivan Pyatkin 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 Tyumen can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Tyumen
Alexandr Bem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 250% of the Tyumen 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Ivan Chudin 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniel Watts, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Marat Kulaev breaks a bone — 91 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 91 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout21 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andrey Marjanov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tyumen the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad21 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tyumen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Maxim Dmitriev
“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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Tyumen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Chudin 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
Squad14 Dec 2026
98 days out for Marat Kulaev after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tyumen will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tyumen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Pavel Shakuro 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Tyumen
Yegor Gurenko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Maxim Dmitriev 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 Dmitriev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market14 Dec 2026
The name of Vladlen Babaev keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tyumen say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
Marat Kulaev breaks a bone — 105 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 105 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match7 Dec 2026
Every point is an argument now for Tyumen
Position 8 and 17 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tyumen may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Tyumen
Pavel Shakuro and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ivan Chudin 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
Ivan Chudin gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Sergey Zuikov breaks a bone — 134 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 134 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market30 Nov 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 Tyumen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Tyumen
Pavel Shakuro 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 238% of the Tyumen 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
Ivan Chudin 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Mikhail Petrov
“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 dugout30 Nov 2026
Ivan Chudin 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.
Market30 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Maxim Dmitriev’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout30 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.
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Uneasy
Market23 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andrey Marjanov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tyumen the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Tyumen
Alexandr Bem 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Tyumen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pavel Shakuro 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
The name of Nikita Yanovich keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tyumen say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Dmitry Begun 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.
The dugout23 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 52. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match14 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Tyumen
13 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Tyumen
Alexandr Bem 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
Ivan Chudin 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Match14 Nov 2026
A point taken on 92 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Match14 Nov 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Daniel Watts gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Fedot Romanov was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Tyumen dressing room was either.
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Crisis
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Tyumen's wait for a win
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Tyumen has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match9 Nov 2026
Tyumen are in real trouble now
Position 8, 16 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Alexandr Bem 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 Tyumen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match7 Nov 2026
Alania left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Tyumen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ivan Chudin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Tyumen can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Fedot Romanov left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The team sheet said everything about Ivan Chudin
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Ivan Chudin.
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Uneasy
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Tyumen's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Tyumen has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. 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.
Market2 Nov 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 Tyumen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 238% of the Tyumen 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 terraces2 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Tyumen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pavel Shakuro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Tyumen
Dmitry Begun 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artem Anoshin, and the manager let it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Fedot Romanov after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Uneasy
Match24 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Tyumen
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Tyumen are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market26 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Tyumen is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tyumen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ivan Chudin 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Tyumen hit back inside 3 minutes
Mashuk held the lead for 3 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Tyumen answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
Match24 Oct 2026
Honours even between Tyumen and Mashuk
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Fedot Romanov after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Tyumen's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Tyumen has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Maxim Dmitriev — 7.92
Marked 7.92. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Alexandr Bem beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Tyumen
Pavel Shakuro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Maxim Dmitriev
“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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Tyumen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ivan Chudin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match17 Oct 2026
Level with 94 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Tyumen had all but put away. Textilschik will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Match17 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Uneasy
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 48. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Tyumen
8 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Tyumen — 7.48
1 for Dmitry Begun, marked 7.48, 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Nikita Yanovich
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Pavel Shakuro 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tyumen are still strangers to each other
7 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Tyumen
Maxim Yedapin 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.
Match10 Oct 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Half-satisfied: Fedot Romanov on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Uneasy
Match30 Sep 2026
The small margins put Tyumen out
Out, 0‑2 to Neftekhimik, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Dmitry Begun beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 33. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match5 Oct 2026
Tyumen sink to position 8
12 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market5 Oct 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Tyumen
7 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.
The dugout5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Tyumen
Alexandr Bem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 277% of the Tyumen income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Tyumen training over how hard people work
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Looking ahead
A six-pointer for Tyumen
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The dugout
No hiding place for Artem Anoshin
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Tyumen
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Tyumen are no longer polite ones.
The dugout28 Sep 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andrey Marjanov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tyumen the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Tyumen
Alexandr Bem 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
3 matches without a goal for Tyumen
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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Tyumen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ivan Chudin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match28 Sep 2026
Tyumen at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 6, 11 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Mikhail Petrov
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Market
The Maxim Dmitriev story refuses to die
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Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Tyumen
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Tyumen are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Tyumen
Alexandr Bem 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
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Tyumen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pavel Shakuro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Fedot Romanov to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Daniel Watts gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
Veles next, and one man in the Tyumen dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
Supporters turn on the $590.0K sale of Vitaly Shitov
He is going to Nizhniy Novgorod, the club has $590.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 13 signed and 4 gone
That is the business done at Tyumen 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Nizhniy Novgorod pay $590.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Tyumen
Pavel Shakuro 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Dinamo Moscow 2 left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Tyumen ran out of time with Kuban. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Tyumen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ivan Chudin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Steady
Player ratings7 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.
Match7 Sep 2026
The view from the top for Tyumen
11 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Market7 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Salyut waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Tyumen is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Tyumen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ivan Chudin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Match5 Sep 2026
A point taken on 85 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Daniel Watts slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Daniel Watts is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Tyumen
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.
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Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Dmitry Begun out for 15 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tyumen will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market31 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Tyumen did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Tyumen is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.24 — 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Tyumen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pavel Shakuro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match29 Aug 2026
It needed Daniil Kamlashev to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Volgar, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Triumph
Squad24 Aug 2026
Dmitry Begun breaks a bone — 22 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market24 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 Tyumen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Tyumen
Pavel Shakuro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ivan Zazvonkin 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Tyumen get the job done against Mashuk
A 1‑0 win over Mashuk, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Daniel Watts
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ivan Chudin 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Dmitry Begun out for 30 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tyumen will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
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. Tyumen have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Watts and Tyumen agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Tyumen
Pavel Shakuro 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Textilschik, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Tyumen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniil Kamlashev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 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 Fedot Romanov to a room that had heard them before.
Market17 Aug 2026
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
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Triumph
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.33 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market10 Aug 2026
Tyumen say no — this time
The offer from Salyut for Andrey Marjanov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Dinamo Kirov made Tyumen work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad10 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 Tyumen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces10 Aug 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Valery Shestakov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Anton Ignashevich 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Maxim Zhuravlev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Vitaly Shitov
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at Tyumen
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
Tyumen win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 94th minute. Sibir will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
10 seasons and 183 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vladlen Babaev and Tyumen agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Tyumen
Alexandr Bem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match1 Aug 2026
Sibir made Tyumen work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Tyumen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ivan Chudin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.