The Samara football club “Wings of the Soviets” will pay 555 million rubles to the Rostec subsidiary “RT-Capital” by the end of 2025. The chairman of the board of directors of “Wings of the Soviets” told journalists. Dmitry Yakovlev.

“At the moment we have paid another 67 million rubles for the debt. Later we plan to increase it to 100. Budget funds will not be used to pay off the debt. We will pay off the debt of 555 million rubles by the end of the year. We are not asking for a loan from the Solidarity Bank,” Yakovlev said.

He also stressed that the club has no debts to players, employees and staff. “We paid all the holidays. We fulfilled all our obligations,” Yakovlev noted.

On December 1, enforcement proceedings were initiated to collect a debt of more than 928 million rubles from Krylya Sovetov in favor of RT-Capital. Previously, the decision to collect the debt was made by the Moscow Arbitration Court, then the 9th Arbitration Court of Appeal confirmed this decision. The football club has borrowed funds for financial support, but has not met its debt repayment obligations since 2016.

Arbitration and Inspection Department of the Russian Football Federation (RFU) demonstrated that the referee Egor Egorov did not affect the results of matches involving Moscow Torpedo. The head of RFU Alexander Diukov.

“The investigation is ongoing and until it is completed we cannot make any comments. I am not familiar with Egorov’s statements. Our refereeing and inspection department analyzed the Torpedo matches refereed by Egorov. In these matches, our experts did not find any incorrect decisions of the referee that could have influenced the result,” Dyukov said.

Previously, the referee’s father, Igor Egorov, in an interview with Sport Express, denied that his son was in custody due to suspicion of involvement in the Torpedo case. Subsequently, in a conversation with the RB Sport portal, Igor Egorov said that his son was involved in a related criminal case.

On July 10, Torpedo was expelled from the Russian World Premier League for the 2025/26 season and fined 5 million rubles. Former chairman of the board of directors Leonid Sobolev and former general director Valery Skorodumov were suspended from all football-related activities for attempting to organize match-fixing for 5 and 10 years respectively. On July 11, the office of the executive committee of the Russian Football Federation decided that Torpedo would compete in the second strongest division of the national championship.

Russian Football Federation (RFU) is interested in making use of the experience of foreign trainers by national specialists. The president told reporters RFU Alexander Diukov.

“If we talk about approaches to the work of coaches, including foreign ones, we see advantages in attracting strong foreign specialists to work in clubs and academies. At the same time, we are interested in having domestic specialists work alongside them, adopt their experience and develop professionally,” Dyukov said.

“If at some point we see that this model does not work, that only foreign coaches work with Russian players, and Russian ones do not, then, of course, we will have to make decisions on regulation,” the boss added. RFU.