Matvey Svidinskiy 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Baranovichi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vadim Balbukh 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 clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Baranovichi is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Baranovichi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Baranovichi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Belal Al-Dawaa 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.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Abdollah Esmaeili and Baranovichi agree another 3 years.
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Baranovichi could ask drops and the wages Matvey Svidinskiy can ask rise.
The words a physio says slowly. 99 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Egor Lapun will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Baranovichi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Timur Pukhov 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.
In brief
SquadWords at Baranovichi training over how hard people work
The words a physio says slowly. 129 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Egor Lapun will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Baranovichi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Timur Pukhov 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.
“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 Baranovichi, and it is not being withdrawn.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Baranovichi is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Add another name to the list: Uni-X Labs have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Artem Petrenko. The answer from Baranovichi has not changed — yet.
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Egor Lapun 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.
In brief
SquadVadim Balbukh falls out with a teammate over standards