Marked for Dmitriy Krivosheev
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Smorgon pay $16.0K, 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
276% of the income goes out in wages at Bumprom Gomel
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Bumprom Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitriy Kaplunov 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Ivan Grudko
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Ivan Grudko has come out of that comparison in the side, and Bumprom Gomel have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kirill Sidorenko, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market31 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Lokomotiv Gomel, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad31 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 Bumprom Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.57, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.18 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Dmitriy Kaplunov 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.
Squad31 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.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
5 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
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Steady
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Valeriy Potorocha takes the afternoon — 9.14
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Valeriy Potorocha provided it, and the 9.14 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match22 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Bumprom Gomel and Dnepr Mogilev, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match22 Aug 2026
A 4‑2 win over Dnepr Mogilev, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market24 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Bumprom Gomel have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ali Sheikhan and Bumprom Gomel agree another 3 years.
Squad24 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 Bumprom Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ivan Grudko has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Sino Absamadov at his very best
Marked 8.18. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bumprom Gomel.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Valeriy Potorocha commits to Bumprom Gomel for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Maxim Samotoy 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Bumprom Gomel have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maxim Samotoy, and the manager let it.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Valeriy Potorocha’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Match1 Aug 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bumprom Gomel, another week without a signature from Dmitriy Krivosheev.