Marked for Andrey Potapenko
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrey Shemruk
53 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dnepr Mogilev lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Egor Karpitskiy 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andrey Potapenko commits to Dnepr Mogilev for another 3 years.
Back issues
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Crisis
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer from Daugavpils for Kirill Kirilenko was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kirill Kirilenko and Dnepr Mogilev agree another 4 years.
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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Dnepr Mogilev have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Bylinkin 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
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Bylinkin, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.