Mikhail Kozlov

Defensive Midfielder - Neman
20 Sep 2026
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The Neman Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Only the photograph left for Guljigit Borubaev

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Guljigit Borubaev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Neman the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Baranovichi come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Neman did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Vadim Yakimchik puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Neman, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

Neman to lose Ruslan Radyukevich for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Ruslan Radyukevich has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Guljigit Borubaev

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Sergey Pushnyakov in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Neman this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Dmitry Lavrischev 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Asion Daja

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Asion Daja, and the manager let it.

Market

Talks stall between Neman and Dmitry Lavrischev

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief