The Kuban Gazette
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Ilja Moseichuk
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sergey Terekhov signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sergey Terekhov commits to Kuban for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Kuban
Ilja Molteninov 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Saturn join the queue for Evgeny Kovalevskiy
Add another name to the list: Saturn have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Evgeny Kovalevskiy. The answer from Kuban has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sergey Terekhov 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 terraces3 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Gleb Bakharev
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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Gleb Bakharev the difference as Kuban beat Murom
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Gleb Bakharev. 1‑0 against Murom, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Kuban and Sergey Terekhov
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Kuban, another week without a signature from Sergey Terekhov.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Gleb Bakharev
7.87, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Kuban had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
In brief
- Market 49 months and counting on Ilja Moseichuk
- Market Ilja Kazakov is free to find somewhere else
- Squad Gleb Bakharev finally opens his account