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The Life and Times of St Pete's Boys... (they'll need a miracle...)
The life and times of St Pete’s Boys
Accounting Scandal Rocks Dinamo Peterburg
December 15th, 2001
Revelations from the Football Union of Russia today have revealed that Dinamo Peterburg have recently discovered a serious financial discrepancy at the club. Rumors are flying that a minor accountant has been cooking the books, and that the club is in far more serious debt than previous assumed. This news has caused a flurry of activity and the original lenders are speeding to the club’s headquarters to reclaim what funds they can. It is uncertain what affect this will have on the club’s future in the Russian 1st Division, having just achieved promotion to that level last season.
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Peterburg Football Club closes Its Doors
December 21st, 2001
Dinamo Peterburg closed its doors today and closed up operations in what a spokesman is calling a ‘temporary’ move, but which many pundits believe is the death knell for the football team. Loyal fans are scrambling to find extra funds to attempt to purchase the club from the many debt holders, including it is reported some with criminal connections, but have so far been unable to reach the needed price. Several shadowy organizations have also set up similar efforts. Although at the present time, we cannot confirm these latter reports, several rumors have connected these organizations to oil interests, mafia connections, and in the most extreme cases to President Vladimir Putin. It is uncertain what to believe at the present as both the league and the club has kept completely quiet.
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Football Union of Russia in Emergency Talks
January 5th, 2001
Representatives meeting today to determine best course of action to resolve league crisis caused by the Dinamo Peterburg scandal.
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Court Rules all Contracts of St Petersburg Team “Null and Void”
Jan 15th, 2002
A court ruling today announced that all contracts at Dinamo Peterburg, the club rocked by scandal at the close of the year, are “null and void” giving all senior level players the right to search for new teams. The players and staff of the club had not been paid since the club closed its doors, and the court ruled that the club’s failure to pay signified a complete breach of contract and that each player and staff member had the right to search for new work. The ruling applies to all listed staff of the club, but does not appear to reach to the youth level of the club organization. The youth academy of the club appears to have separated itself from the financial trouble at an early stage and have carried out business as close to usual as possible under the conditions.
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New Owner Takes Control of Dinamo Peterburg Organization
Jan 24th, 2002
An unknown investor today took control of the remaining structure of Dinamo Peterburg. The details of the transaction are not public knowledge at this time, however it is believed that the new owner has cleared some debts, while assuming some of the others, and is beginning to negotiate with the league and Football Union to get some of the league rights, including position, name, and youth set-up to be conglomerated into a new organization that maintains a connection to the previous.
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Russian 1st Division Gives Club’s Rights to New Owner
Jan 25th, 2002
In a disputed decision today, the Russian 1st Division has given certain rights to the youth set-up of indebted Dinamo Peterburg the right to participate this season. With the schedule of games already published, many in the press are assuming this to be an attempt by the officials to avoid embarrassment and maintain some topical sense of continuity.
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New Dinamo Peterburg Manager Searches for Players
Jan 30th, 2002
Maximov Jenski, formerly a low level coach of the Dinamo Peterburg youth organization, and one of the few remaining coaches left at the scandal ridden club, has been named interim manager of the newly re-formed club. The manager, without a transfer budget, will be scrambling to sign players to compete this season. It is widely assumed that no senior level players will risk joining a club that looks destined to plummet down the table faster than Yeltsin downs vodka. Certain pundits are expecting the manager to promote as many of his youth players as possible to the senior level. Some have already begun to refer to the club as “St. Pete’s Boys”, because they’ll need a miracle to avoid relegation and serious injuries, both on and, if rumors are to be believed about whom the mysterious investor is, off the pitch as well.
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Fans Still Push for Ownership
Feb 2nd, 2002
Fans of Dinamo Peterburg continue to attempt a buy-out of their club. Recent statements from the fans club has stated that new interim manager Jenski has been in touch with the fans to say that he is fully in support of a fan, and if possible, player owned club, and will be approaching potential signings with this as his main idea. It is unclear how this act by Jenski will be seen by the unknown owner.
08-08-2005, 08:21 PM
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St Pete's Boys To Sign First Player Under New Ownership, Manager
An un-named source within the sure to be relegated club has fingered midfielder Evanov Nicholas as having signed a preliminary contract, although details have not been secured.
Nicholas has played with the youth side for the past several years, and his father, of German
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descent, is said to have been a top prospect of his time before he became an activist.
This reporter has attempted to contact Nicholas, but has yet to reach the youngster.
08-08-2005, 10:12 PM
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New Dinamo Peterburg signing Evanov Nicholas has said that he's "excited and twitching with anticipation" upon signing for St. Pete's Boys. In a sometimes awkward interview conducted in Nicholas' faltering English at his request, he explained that he sees his signing as the fulfillment of his father's dreams.
"My father left football for ideals in union work," Nicholas said in a local coffeeshop. "He did not have riches or fame, as I hope to. My father wanted me to follow his example, but football is much more friendly to beautiful girlfriends and high-profile transers to England. I am following my father's early path, and not his later work."
Such quotes might lead some to believe that Nicholas is more interested in using St. Pete's Boys as a launching pad to bigger things, but he denies this allegation.
"I would love to remain here, as long as my expectations are met. St. Pete's Boys should be winning trophies and playing in Europe."
Nicholas' father was reportedly proud at hearing that his son has signed for Dinamo Peterburg, and hopes that his son can play a part in the fans' attempted purchase of the troubled club.
Evanov Nicholas echoed these sentiments, before leaving the interview: "I am sorry, but I now depart. I must go watch Red Scorpion on DVD before practice."
08-08-2005, 10:24 PM
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Difficult to decide whether to classify this as a good signing or not. But sources are saying that hardman Georgio Georgikov has signed a contract. Qouth the player: "I will play as striker for my new club. Or else."
08-08-2005, 11:49 PM
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Two More Fools... er, Footballers Sign for Dinamo Pete
Mikhail Ramius Golovko and Mihkel Karlovitj Veske, two defensive oriented players but with apparently completely different approaches to the game have reportedly signed for the club. Golovko is, according to at least one phone call we received, close enough to the Vladivostok criminal element to be known as "Golo" to his enemies.
Veske is of a more meek personality, and seems to better suit Jenski's team based approach.
The question on this reporter's mind is: Are there two methods of thought in the signing of players? I think these first signings show clearly Jenski is not the only one making signing decisions. The mysterious string puller may be influencing some of these contracts. How this will shape out could be better than some of the plots of disaster movies.
08-09-2005, 11:01 AM
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. . . Clipping from The St. Petersburg Times
Sports Column
A Team On The Brink . . . Of Collapse
Our previously “professional” football team has become a farce and an embarrassment to the glorious city of Saint Petersburg. I was there all last season to cheer as Dynamo Peterburg fought so hard last year to even make it in the premiere division, only to see all of our top players fetched off to the nearest competitors and other leagues. I’m devastated and will likely not renew my season tickets. Why spend my hard earned rubles to see what amounts to our Youth team get crushed each match by seasoned professional from other teams, while these suspicious and unknown owner siphon money out of the club for their own lusts and greed. Absurd!
Sincerely,
Suka Pyosov
. . . Clipping from The Peterburgskaya Gazyeta
Sports Interest
Communists with Capital?
The new boys in the Russian First League have been filling up sporting columns recently, and not necessarily for all the right reasons. The drama surrounding the team will likely serve as a huge distraction for the players being brought in to consolidate their promotion from last year.
The team is facing financial chaos, and will head into the next season without the familiar faces that worked hard to win them promotion, but there is reason to cheer for the team, and a ray of hope shining through the gloom. A movement is afoot by representatives from the local fan club, in combination with the players to purchase a controlling interest in the club, and thereby avoid an embarrassing administrative inquiry which would almost certainly end the club’s run into top flight football and send it spiraling back down into lower league mediocrity. Such an endeavor has almost certainly never been tried before in the sporting world, and it is not known what the ramifications of players effectively “paying each other” to play would be. There are bound to be problems bringing in new players to buy into this new system of player/ownership, so for the time being – what you see is what you get as this group of players must stick by each other through thick and thin until the team becomes financially self-sustaining again, or a more stable controlling interest obtains control of the team.
The Peterburgskaya Gazyeta will be following this story throughout the season as it develops. Until then . . .watch this space.
08-09-2005, 05:06 PM
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With the season looming just a few weeks away, Dinamo Peterburg manager Maximov Jenski continues to try and find warm bodies to plug in at defensive positions. He has apparently even rung up previously signed players asking them to put themselves down as defenders, just so the club can look like there is positional coverage.
According to the most recent clubhouse reports, the current squad signings are as follows:
AMC: Evanov Nicholas
SC: Georgio Georgiokov
DMC: Mikhail Ramius Golovko - "Golo"
DC/DMC: Mihkel Karlovitj Veske - "Misja"
D/S C: Garzon Moriz Abuzaglo
AM/F C/L: Kopiteski Pravaya
AM/F C/R: Aliasander Anerdov
GK: Hermanov Toothrotski
AMR: Alexander Korjev
GK: Bobski Berberov
AML: Sergei Powersov
Although it isn't really this papers place to do so, any interested players may as well call up St Pete's Boys for a try-out... we'd certainly find it amusing at any rate.
08-10-2005, 09:05 PM
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Reports continue to come in that Jenski is sorting through any number of brutal youths with a minimum of football talent searching for a possible jewel in the mix. We have also had reports that two defenders have recently agreed to contracts.
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