Marked for Stanislav Letsko
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Steady
Market16 Nov 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Volna Pinsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Vitaliy Kibuk
“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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Maxim Grechikha trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market16 Nov 2026
2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Volna Pinsk money.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Volna Pinsk will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Back issues
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Steady
Market9 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Volna Pinsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Dmitriy Lesnyak
“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.
Market9 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Volna Pinsk, another week without a signature from Maxim Grechikha.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk 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 Volna Pinsk, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market9 Nov 2026
1 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Volna Pinsk could get for him.
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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Volna Pinsk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Volna Pinsk money.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Anton Susha 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 Volna Pinsk, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market12 Oct 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Azam Radzhabov may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Azam Radzhabov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Azam Radzhabov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Volna Pinsk close the window on a squad of their own making
20 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Artem Vlasov 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.
The dugout14 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.
Market14 Sep 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
Maxim Druchik knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Maxim Druchik trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Stanislav Letsko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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 Volna Pinsk, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Anton Susha 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Gleb Loyko 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 Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Ivan Mamavko
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Maxim Grechikha. Volna Pinsk will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Maxim Druchik 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 Volna Pinsk, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Market24 Aug 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Volna Pinsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
6 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Daniil Tkachik 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk 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 targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Isloch have kept their man, and Volna Pinsk go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match22 Aug 2026
0‑2 to Belshina, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Uneasy
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 44. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Volna Pinsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ilya Rabeshko 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. Ilya Rabeshko has, at Volna Pinsk, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market10 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Volna Pinsk did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk, 37, rolls back the years — 7.98
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.98 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vadzim 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dzmitry Hryshyn is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.33, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match1 Aug 2026
Dnepr Mogilev left with the points after a 3‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad3 Aug 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 Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
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 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
Words at Volna Pinsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anton Susha 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Dmitriy Matyash at his very best
Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Volna Pinsk.