This week on the RFN Podcast, James Nickels, Richard Pike and Hanu Trivedi discuss the trio of Champions League games in which Krasnodar and Loko pick up respectable draws away while Zenit fails at home to Club Brugge, then they take some quick kicks around some of the notable RPL action.

Timestamps:

1:25 - The Meme Lord Eder Strikes in Austria

12:41 - Krasnodar's Full-Back Party Pays Dividends

29:50 - Zenit's "frauds" lose against Brugge

53:00 - Spartak's dirty victory over Khimki

54:55 - CSKA Take the Spoils v Dynamo

57:00 - Semak's Big Week

58:00 - Wendel-vision

59:00 - Arsenal's New Guns

1:02:35 - Hanu's Big Trivia

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We have a full-bag this week on the RFN Pod, as James Nickels, David Sansun and Richard Pike discuss all things international, looking at Russia's Nation's League games v Turkey and Hungary and assess the U21s qualification to the 2021 European U21 Championship. Then, they move onto Rostov and overview their last-minute transfer craze, announcing five transfers in less than an hour. To preview the Zenit v Brugge game, Ben Jackson of the Belgian Football Podcast joins us, before we round-off analysing Dynamo's appointment of Sandro Schwarz as their new Head Coach.

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Timestamps:

1:08 - Sbornaya Nation's League Games

5:40 - Russia U21's "Golden Generation"

14:52 - Rostov's Crazy Transfer Window Spree

25:05 - Zenit v Club Brugge Interview with The Belgian Football Podcast's Ben Jackson

51:35 - European Predictions & Quick-Fire Preview

58:05 - Dynamo Moscow Appoint Sandro Schwarz as Head Coach

1:09:50 - RFN Socials

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This week on the RFN Podcast, James Nickels, Richard Pike and Andrew Flint review the shared spoils in El Klassikov at the weekend, look ahead to Russia's Nation's League games with Turkey & Hungary and kick-off the all-new RFN Mailbag answering your questions, including why 11 Eder's are better than Messi & look at what's going on in Rostov High Street.

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Timestamps:

1:08 - Spartak v Zenit

21:20 - Russia's International Games

35:14 - Dinamo's Managerial Search

38:23 - EAEU Legionnaires in the RPL

40:50 - Tyumen Leading the PFL

43:00 - 11 Eder v Messi & the Rostov Kids

46:26 - Vadim Evseev's Sacking

49:44 - Krasnodar's Striking Issue

53:05 - What's happening in Rostov?

55:30 - Luch Vladivostok Staying Alive?

59:24 - RPL/FNL Structural Reform

1:00:35 - New RPL Foreigner Limits

1:07:20 - Lokomotiv's Chances of Winning the UCL

1:08:30 - How to send into the RFN Mailbag

1:09:15 - Socials & Next up on RFN

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In a special European Football themed episode of the RFN Podcast, regulars James Nickels, David Sansun and Richard Pike celebrate Krasnodar qualifying for their first-ever Champions League group stage campaign, analyse Dinamo Moscow sacking their manager Kiril Novikov and review Rostov's current fire sale amidst the latter two team's failures in the Europa League.

This week on the RFN Podcast, regulars James Nickels, David Sansun and Richard Pike review Krasnodar's first-leg victory over PAOK in the UCL Third Qualifying Round, deep dive and focus on CSKA Moscow's auspicious start to the season before rounding off a host of quick kicks from the most recent RPL action.

This week on the RFN Podcast, regulars James & David are joined by returnee Artem Makarevitch and debutant Hanu Trivedi, who form the Whatever This Is Podcast team.

The four dissect the Main-Moscow derby and gush over Chidera Ejuke's CSKA debut, discuss Artem Dzyuba's ice-cold finishing in Zenit's win over Arsenal and deep dive into the COVID-19 outbreak at Rotor. Then, they quickly scan over the Russian Cup's new format and preview Krasnodar v PAOK on Tuesday.

Doing so all while trying to keep an eye on Dinamo's embarrassing and, frankly, shameful defeat at the hands of Locomotive Tbilisi.

This week on the RFN Podcast, James Nickels, Richard Pike and Andrew Flint get together to discuss all the latest goings on in the wonderful and mad world of Russian Football, including: Russia's auspicious start to their Nation's League campaign, all the latest transfers including Alexey Miranchuk's move to Atalanta & Daniil Lesovoy's bargain shift to Dinamo Moscow before finally rounding off with a look ahead at this weekends RPL fixtures, chiefly, Tambov's match with Ufa and financial issues beforing previewing the first Main Moscow Derby of the season as CSKA host Spartak.

This week on the RFN Podcast, James Nickels & David Sansun overviews the European qualifying draw and looks ahead to see how each of Krasnodar, Dinamo Moscow and Rostov may fare in their respective ties, deep dives into Spartak's unlikely title-leading run to the top of the RPL under Domenico Tedesco and finally previews this weekend's Nations League fixtures as Russia face Serbia and Hungary.

This week on the RFN Podcast, James Nickels, David Sansun and Andrew Flint analyses Stanislav Cherchesov's latest Sbornaya squad, take a look back at the latest RPL action including Spartak v Loko and Dinamo v CSKA and finally deep dive on Sochi's great form taking them to third in the Premier Liga.

This week on the RFN Podcast, James Nickels, Andrew Flint and Richard Pike welcome the recent arrivals of Francois Kamano & Nikola Moro to the RPL, cover all the latest in the transfer saga that could be Alexey Miranchuk to AC Milan, deep dive into Ural Ekaterinburg and round-up the rest of the latest Premier Liga action.