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Crisis
Squad19 Apr 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Denis Laptev
“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.
Match17 Apr 2027
Dinamo Brest left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Uneasy
Match27 Mar 2027
A 1-0 win over Dnepr Mogilev, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad29 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.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Gomel, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Gomel, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market29 Mar 2027
The name of Viktor Sotnikov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Gomel say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Timur Pukhov wants a proper job in this side
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Timur Pukhov has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Gomel know, and have known for weeks.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jorge Rojas and Gomel agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market8 Mar 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market8 Mar 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market8 Mar 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market8 Mar 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Denis Laptev
“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.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gomel they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dmitriy Lisakovich commits to Gomel for another 4 years.
Market7 Sep 2026
The fee is $250.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Lokomotiv Gomel drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Denis Laptev
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
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Triumph
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gomel is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Denis Laptev gets it from the manager
“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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Gomel get the job done against Smorgon
A 1-0 win over Smorgon, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Georgiy Kukushkin commits to Gomel for another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Gomel, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Denis Laptev and Gomel agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match1 Aug 2026
Three points for Gomel, 2-1 the final word against Molodechno in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Igor Zayats
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
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.