Marked for Denis Kovalevich
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
Kirill Leonovich: 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.” Gomel have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match24 Oct 2026
A European lesson for Gomel
0‑1 against Famalicao. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Market26 Oct 2026
Ivan Pavlov has one foot out of the door
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jan Kvída 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 Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Artem Kuratnik has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Gomel have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Manuel Granados 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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Triumph
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Alexandr Savitskiy obliged against Niva. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Gomel.
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Pavel Pashevich will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gomel the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market17 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Astana have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Daniil Silinskiy. The answer from Gomel has not changed — yet.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Pavel Pashevich 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Denis Laptev 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 Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Artem Salygo has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Gomel have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Arseniy Achapovskiy’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Gomel.
The terraces17 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.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
245 appearances across 12 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Gomel know what they have.
Market3 Aug 2026
Gomel say no — this time
The offer from Uni-X Labs for Danila Kalatsey 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
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Denis Laptev commits to Gomel for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Gomel
Denis Laptev 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Arseniy Achapovskiy 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Denis Kovalevich’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Gomel.
Market3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Kirill Leonovich’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.75 on the card, and the Gomel support went home talking about one name.