Marked for Dmitriy Guschenko
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Upbeat
Squad12 Jun 2028
68 days out for Andrey Potapenko after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Dnepr Mogilev will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market12 Jun 2028
Alexey Dunaev 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 Dnepr Mogilev can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces12 Jun 2028
He is 21 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.
Player ratings12 Jun 2028
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.
Player ratings12 Jun 2028
Kirill Zabelin was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.16. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vadim Arutyunyan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Alexandr Kanaplin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout12 Jun 2028
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
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Steady
Market17 Apr 2028
“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 The request is on a desk at Dnepr Mogilev, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Apr 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Roman Begunov and Dnepr Mogilev agree another 1 years.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
Marked 7.28 on 10 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Kirill Kirilenko 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.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vadim Arutyunyan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
7.52, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Dnepr Mogilev had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmitriy Guschenko, and the manager let it.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Yauhen Bykau after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Steady
Market20 Mar 2028
“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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Alexandr Kanaplin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Vadim Arutyunyan 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.
Match18 Mar 2028
Three points for Dnepr Mogilev, 1‑0 the final word against Slutsk in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.85 on the card, and the Dnepr Mogilev support went home talking about one name.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
“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 dugout20 Mar 2028
Kirill Zabelin has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Shots: 8, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Squad3 Jan 2028
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Dnepr Mogilev had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Alexandr Kanaplin 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.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aslanbek Kumykov, and the manager let it.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Kirill Tsepenkov is on it.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Valery Pochivalin 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.
Market3 Jan 2028
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dnepr Mogilev, another week without a signature from Dmitriy Guschenko.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
The manager has not finished forgetting Vladislav Tarasenko's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
Alexey Dunaev knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dnepr Mogilev, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market3 Jan 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dnepr Mogilev know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Boardroom29 Nov 2027
The season a town measures the next twenty against. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.
Squad29 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikolay Sobolev
27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dnepr Mogilev lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad29 Nov 2027
A fracture rules Alexey Dunaev out for 40 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dnepr Mogilev will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match24 Nov 2027
Dinamo Brest are out and Dnepr Mogilev go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad29 Nov 2027
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Dnepr Mogilev have had the benefit of it.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Egor Karpitskiy 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.
The terraces29 Nov 2027
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.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmitriy Lisakovich, and the manager let it.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
Marked 7.74. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Steady
Squad8 Nov 2027
Nikolay Sobolev damages knee ligaments — 48 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 48 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad8 Nov 2027
A fracture rules Alexey Dunaev out for 61 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dnepr Mogilev will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market8 Nov 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Egor Karpitskiy 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 dugout8 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Semen Shestilovskiy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Squad1 Nov 2027
68 days out for Alexey Dunaev after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Dnepr Mogilev will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market1 Nov 2027
Nik Kapun 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 Dnepr Mogilev can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Egor Karpitskiy 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Dnepr Mogilev are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Kirill Kirilenko is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Kirill Tsepenkov is on it.
Market1 Nov 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dnepr Mogilev, another week without a signature from Dmitriy Guschenko.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
Something was said to Daniil Zhabrakov and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Squad11 Oct 2027
Alexey Dunaev breaks a bone — 89 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 89 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dnepr Mogilev have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market11 Oct 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Egor Nikoporenok arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Egor Nikoporenok has, at Dnepr Mogilev, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets11 Oct 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Egor Karpitskiy 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Vadim Arutyunyan 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.
Market11 Oct 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Dnepr Mogilev has been clear about where Dmitriy Guschenko stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmitriy Lisakovich, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad4 Oct 2027
Alexey Dunaev breaks a bone — 96 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 96 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match2 Oct 2027
0‑3 to Torpedo-BelAZ, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market4 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexandr Kanaplin and Dnepr Mogilev agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Dmitriy Lisakovich 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.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Mikhail Klachkovich is the division's best young player this month
At 19 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Dnepr Mogilev will try very hard not to make too much of it.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Steady
Market20 Sep 2027
“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.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Vadim Arutyunyan ran the middle of the pitch — 7.12
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 19 combined actions and a mark of 7.12, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Egor Karpitskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vadim Arutyunyan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets20 Sep 2027
Dnepr Mogilev asked and Neman said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces20 Sep 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Kirill Tsepenkov 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.
Match18 Sep 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Kirill Tsepenkov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Dnepr Mogilev.
Squad20 Sep 2027
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
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Crisis
Market30 Aug 2027
“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 Dnepr Mogilev, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
This is not rotation. Kirill Kirilenko has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Dnepr Mogilev is pretending otherwise.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Kirill Kirilenko 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vadim Arutyunyan 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.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
“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.
Match28 Aug 2027
0‑1 to Arsenal Dzerzhinsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
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 Yauhen Bykau to a room that had heard them before.
Market30 Aug 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Valery Pochivalin has his answer from Dnepr Mogilev; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Alexey Dunaev's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Steady
Market23 Aug 2027
Only the photograph left for Pavel Sedich
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Pavel Sedich will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dnepr Mogilev the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vadim Arutyunyan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roman Piletskiy, and the manager let it.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dmitriy Guschenko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Looking ahead23 Aug 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Arsenal Dzerzhinsk in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Dnepr Mogilev will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
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Crisis
Match7 Aug 2027
4 matches without a win for Dnepr Mogilev
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Dnepr Mogilev are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Egor Karpitskiy 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.
Match7 Aug 2027
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vadim Arutyunyan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Brest have kept their man, and Dnepr Mogilev go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces9 Aug 2027
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.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
“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.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Kirill Tsepenkov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.26. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Alexandr Kanaplin was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.04. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Jun 2027
Kirill Kirilenko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match12 Jun 2027
0‑2 to Torpedo-BelAZ, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
“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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Muzaffar Gurbanov 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 Jun 2027
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.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Dnepr Mogilev told Semen Shestilovskiy something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
Muzaffar Gurbanov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad14 Jun 2027
At 20 he was the best of everybody his age in the division for one weekend. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
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Triumph
Match3 Apr 2027
4‑1, and Kirill Tsepenkov took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Dnepr Mogilev tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
A brace, and Kirill Tsepenkov takes the afternoon — 9.16
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kirill Tsepenkov provided it, and the 9.16 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.35 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Pavel Sedich, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.91
A mark of 7.91 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market5 Apr 2027
Pavel Sedich has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dnepr Mogilev they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match3 Apr 2027
Nobody wants to play Dnepr Mogilev right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Kirill Kirilenko 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Yegor Burkhin is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
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Upbeat
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Vadim Afanasjev: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dnepr Mogilev have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Vadim Arutyunyan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Roman Piletskiy 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 dugout29 Mar 2027
“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 ahead29 Mar 2027
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Dmitriy Lisakovich’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Dnepr Mogilev needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market29 Mar 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dnepr Mogilev know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The training reports on Fedor Yurkevich are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
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Triumph
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“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.
Match6 Mar 2027
Nobody wants to play Dnepr Mogilev right now
5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Market8 Mar 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dmitriy Guschenko and Dnepr Mogilev agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Kirill Kirilenko 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maxim Kasarab was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces8 Mar 2027
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.
Match6 Mar 2027
3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
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Upbeat
Market21 Sep 2026
Pavel Sedich has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dnepr Mogilev they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Sep 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrey Denisyuk 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.
The dugout21 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Muzaffar Gurbanov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Dnepr Mogilev. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market21 Sep 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Muzaffar Gurbanov signs something — a contract at Dnepr Mogilev or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market21 Sep 2026
Dnepr Mogilev opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Muzaffar Gurbanov stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Muzaffar Gurbanov at 19 — 8.12
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Muzaffar Gurbanov did not need any: 8.12, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dmitriy Lisakovich and Dnepr Mogilev agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dmitriy Lisakovich 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 terraces3 Aug 2026
He is 19 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.
The dugout3 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Nenad Perović 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 95. Belshina had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Dnepr Mogilev
13 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.