Marked for Igor Tymonyuk
From our football correspondent
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Market13 Sep 2027
Only the photograph left for Igor Monich
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Igor Monich will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Molodechno the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market13 Sep 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 The request is on a desk at Molodechno, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom13 Sep 2027
Window shuts: 10 in, 9 out at Molodechno
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 10 arrived, 9 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Boardroom13 Sep 2027
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Pavel Pampukha 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.
Boardroom13 Sep 2027
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Molodechno
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Georgy Tigiev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match11 Sep 2027
0‑2 to Vitebsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Crisis
Match17 Jul 2027
11 matches without a win for Molodechno
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Molodechno are no longer polite ones.
Match17 Jul 2027
9 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Pavel Pampukha 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Georgy Tigiev 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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Molodechno asked and Dinamo Minsk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match17 Jul 2027
A bad afternoon for Molodechno against BATE
0‑2 to BATE, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Danila Tretyak
“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.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
A loan enquiry to Slutsk: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Match10 Jul 2027
No end in sight to Molodechno's wait for a win
10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Molodechno has to find a result from somewhere.
Match10 Jul 2027
8 matches without a goal for Molodechno
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 8 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Market12 Jul 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 Molodechno, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Pavel Pampukha 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Georgy Tigiev 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.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Minsk have kept their man, and Molodechno go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artur Malievskiy, and the manager let it.
Match10 Jul 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Market22 Feb 2027
Igor Tymonyuk 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 Lida can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Orsha; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Lida have done the hard part with BATE, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market22 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Artem Yanushko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Yanushko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lida the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Karnitskiy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Market1 Feb 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Lida have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
The paperwork begins on Vadim Galko
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Lida have done the hard part with Smorgon, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Isloch keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A move Martin Parilla would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Martin Parilla is living that version at Lida, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad1 Feb 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 Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Lida have gone to Dinamo Brest with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Alexandr Karnitskiy 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Franciszek Liszka and Lida agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Ivan Veras
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Boardroom
Wages eat 85% of everything Lida earn
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Market
Igor Tymonyuk is free to find somewhere else
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Steady
Market7 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lida is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexey Legchilin commits to Lida for another 1 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Puzach was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Lida
Artem Salygo 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 dugout7 Dec 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Igor Tymonyuk slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Igor Tymonyuk is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
Lida bow out of the cup
Torpedo-BelAZ go through and Lida go home, 0‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from Maxim Azarko
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market24 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Lida have lost him in all but the paperwork.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
A cup embarrassment at Torpedo-BelAZ follows Lida home
0-4. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexandr Puzach will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lida the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Lida
Dmitriy Vashkevich and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Lida asked and Vitebsk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match22 Aug 2026
Belshina left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.