Marked for Dmitriy Girs
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market26 Jul 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Neman have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Match24 Jul 2027
No end in sight to Neman's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Neman has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Neman
Sergey Pushnyakov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets26 Jul 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 terraces26 Jul 2027
The crowd has taken to Ilya Kirko
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.
Market26 Jul 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ivan Kavalyou has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market26 Jul 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Eduard Ihnatovich has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market26 Jul 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hleb Signevich has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad26 Jul 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.
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Crisis
Squad19 Jul 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match17 Jul 2027
No end in sight to Neman's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Neman has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Neman
Sergey Pushnyakov 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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Neman asked and Newport County 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
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market19 Jul 2027
The phone has started ringing about Maksim Makas again, and this time the name on the line is Ostrovets. Neman are listening politely and promising nothing.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Ilya Kirko
“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
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Artem Bykau after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
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Market
The Ruslan Radyukevich conversation is coming
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Squad
Words at Neman training over how hard people work
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Squad
The division's best last weekend was a Neman man
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
A brace, and Dmitry Radikovskiy takes the afternoon — 8.92
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Dmitry Radikovskiy provided it, and the 8.92 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The dugout12 Jul 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.
Market12 Jul 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Neman they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom12 Jul 2027
Nazar Kurak has agreed to leave Neman for nothing
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.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Neman
Pavel Savitskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets12 Jul 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.
Match10 Jul 2027
It needed Dmitry Radikovskiy to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Gomel, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
A loan move for James Crole is in the works
Neman have made the call to Newport County. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Uneasy
Player ratings10 May 2027
Dmitry Radikovskiy, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.79
A mark of 7.79 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.
Market10 May 2027
Petr Kazantsev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Neman they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom10 May 2027
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Maxim Zhordochkin has agreed terms with Slutsk for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 May 2027
Words exchanged at Neman
Pavel Savitskiy 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.
Match8 May 2027
It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad10 May 2027
A row about effort at Neman
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Étienne Camara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces10 May 2027
At 21 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.
Match8 May 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dmitry Radikovskiy. 1‑0 against Slutsk, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Shérif Jimoh
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Pavel Savitskiy asks for a word with the manager
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.82 for the rest of it.
Market12 Apr 2027
Petr Kazantsev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Neman they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match10 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Neman
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Neman
Sergey Pushnyakov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Neman
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Étienne Camara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom12 Apr 2027
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Matvey Papulin has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Neman have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Ilya Kirko
“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.
Match10 Apr 2027
Level with 94 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Neman had all but put away. Slavia Mozyr will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Squad22 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexandr Ednach and Neman agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad22 Mar 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 Neman this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Neman training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Étienne Camara 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.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Andrey Emeljanov has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Neman have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Alexandr Ednach
“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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Marked 7.66 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Neman had the best player on the pitch.
Match20 Mar 2027
Neman and Minsk take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Squad15 Mar 2027
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market15 Mar 2027
Petr Kazantsev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Neman they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Neman
Sergey Pushnyakov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Étienne Camara 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 dugout15 Mar 2027
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Artem Bykau could afford to be generous.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Matysyuk, and the manager let it.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Neman will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 14 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Shérif Jimoh: 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.” Neman have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Neman
Sergey Pushnyakov 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.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
21 days out for Pavel Savitskiy after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Neman will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Maxim Autko: 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.” Neman have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market30 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Ilya Kirko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ilya Kirko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Neman the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Neman
Sergey Pushnyakov 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artur Nazarenko, and the manager let it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Neman training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maxim Autko 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.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
29 days out for Pavel Savitskiy after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Neman will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Ivan Sadovnichiy: 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.” Neman have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market23 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Neman they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Neman
Sergey Pushnyakov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Neman
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Étienne Camara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad23 Nov 2026
64 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“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 Neman, and 1 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Matysyuk, and the manager let it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Dmitriy Girs 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 Neman, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 43 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market9 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Neman is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Neman
Dmitry Radikovskiy 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Viktar Skavysh is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Neman training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petr Kazantsev 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.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
50 days out for Pavel Savitskiy after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Neman will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Neman is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Nov 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 Neman this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Neman
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Étienne Camara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market2 Nov 2026
Andrey Yakimov is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Neman has been clear about where Andrey Yakimov stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mateush Montevka, and the manager let it.
Market2 Nov 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
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 Nikita Matysyuk is on it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Andrey Yakimov 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 Neman, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 73 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market12 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Dmitriy Girs
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Dmitriy Girs will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Neman the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Neman
Sergey Pushnyakov 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 Oct 2026
Words at Neman training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Étienne Camara 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sergei Malevich is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Timur Minets, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Pavel Savitskiy out for 80 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Neman will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market5 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Ilya Kirko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ilya Kirko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Neman the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Neman
Sergey Pushnyakov 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 Oct 2026
Words at Neman training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Étienne Camara 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 dugout5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Étienne Camara
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Étienne Camara has come out of that comparison in the side, and Neman have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout5 Oct 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
Dmitriy Girs 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 Neman, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Neman. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Pavel Savitskiy out for 90 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Neman will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market28 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Neman is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Neman
Sergey Pushnyakov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Dinamo Minsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
16 new faces, and Neman are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I watch every Neman game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Uni-X Labs runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 106 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match12 Sep 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Neman scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Neman is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.93 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Neman — 7.22
1 for Ilya Kirko, marked 7.22, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 14 signed and 12 gone
That is the business done at Neman until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Neman
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Étienne Camara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Stade Malien have kept their man, and Neman go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Three points for Neman, 2‑1 the final word against Torpedo-BelAZ in a contest settled by the finer margins.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Pavel Savitskiy out for 122 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Neman will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market31 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Neman they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Alexey Shalashnikov 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Neman
Kirill Veidyger 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
$96.0K was the most the club would pay and Torpedo-BelAZ were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
At 21 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Neman get the job done against Naftan
A 1‑0 win over Naftan, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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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Uneasy
Squad17 Aug 2026
137 days out for Pavel Savitskiy after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Neman will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $280.0K sale of Anton Suchkov
He is going to Torpedo-BelAZ, the club has $280.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market17 Aug 2026
Dmitriy Girs has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Neman they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Paide is saying, and nobody at Neman is enjoying the guessing.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Dmitriy Girs has agreed terms with Dinamo Minsk for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Neman
Sergey Pushnyakov 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Torpedo-BelAZ pay $280.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.