Marked for Anton Suchkov
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market13 Sep 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at BATE, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Tempers go at BATE
Jubal 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.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Marked 10.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match11 Sep 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jubal. 4‑3 against Torpedo-BelAZ, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market13 Sep 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. BATE have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Jubal in the eights
A performance of 8.97 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
A performance of 8.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.05, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Yan Shumskiy
“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.
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Steady
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Tempers go at BATE
Jubal 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.
Match14 Aug 2027
A bad afternoon for BATE against Slutsk
2‑3 to Slutsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Danila Sokol lets one through his hands
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Market16 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. BATE have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
One of those days for Jubal
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.11, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“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.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Doors closed at BATE
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
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Upbeat
Match28 Jul 2027
BATE march on in the cup
Osipovichi are out and BATE go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match31 Jul 2027
No mercy from BATE
Neman will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. BATE were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad2 Aug 2027
16 goals and a season average of 7.36. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match31 Jul 2027
Nobody wants to play BATE right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Market2 Aug 2027
The phone has started ringing about Zakhar Gitselev again, and this time the name on the line is Orsha. BATE are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
A performance of 9.30 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad2 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BATE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
One of those days for Jubal
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.98, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
A performance of 8.84 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Steady
Squad19 Jul 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market19 Jul 2027
BATE say no — this time
The offer from Slonim for Zakhar Gitselev 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BATE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad12 Jul 2027
Tempers go at BATE
Vladislav Yatskevich 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.
Market12 Jul 2027
The phone has started ringing about Zakhar Gitselev again, and this time the name on the line is Slonim. BATE are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Marked 8.05 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match10 Jul 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
2 goals and a season average of 7.21. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad12 Jul 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. BATE have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
A mark of 5.77 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BATE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match3 Jul 2027
A bad afternoon for BATE against Gomel
0‑1 to Gomel, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pietro Flores, and the manager let it.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Nobody left the BATE dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
BATE release $1.5M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Squad5 Jul 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Vladislav Ignatjev knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Market5 Jul 2027
Zakhar Gitselev is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at BATE has been clear about where Zakhar Gitselev stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The captaincy has been taken off Danila Sokol. BATE will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Triumph
Squad21 Jun 2027
A one-man rearguard from Danila Sokol
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.
Market21 Jun 2027
Lida come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and BATE did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
A performance of 9.55 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad21 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BATE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Jun 2027
Three points for BATE, 1‑0 the final word against Arsenal Dzerzhinsk in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
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.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“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.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” BATE may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Danila Sokol commits to BATE for another 4 years.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Tempers go at BATE
Anton Suchkov 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.
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Upbeat
Match2 Jun 2027
Cup progress for BATE
A 3‑0 win over Niva, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Defensive actions: 26, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BATE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Jun 2027
1‑3 to Dinamo Minsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
A performance of 9.25 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Marked 9.23 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Jair Córdova gets it from the manager
“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.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
BATE release $1.5M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
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Upbeat
Squad31 May 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 12 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match31 May 2027
BATE refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 25 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Match29 May 2027
Nobody wants to play BATE right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad31 May 2027
Tempers go at BATE
Vladislav Yatskevich 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.
Squad31 May 2027
13 goals and a season average of 7.31. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Marked 9.55 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Upbeat
Squad17 May 2027
A one-man rearguard from Danila Sokol
There were 12 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.
Match15 May 2027
Whatever happens, BATE do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings17 May 2027
A performance of 9.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match15 May 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Anton Suchkov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to BATE.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BATE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 May 2027
“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.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 13 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad17 May 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. BATE have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Steady
Squad10 May 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vladislav Yatskevich and BATE agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match8 May 2027
Still nobody has beaten BATE
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Marked 8.38 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Pietro Flores
“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.
Match8 May 2027
BATE share the spoils with Isloch
A 1‑1 draw with Isloch leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad10 May 2027
César Medina finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. BATE have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Player ratings10 May 2027
The one thing Jair Córdova could not do
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Market10 May 2027
The name of Danila Sokol keeps appearing in other people's back pages. BATE say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Match3 May 2027
BATE are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 15 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad3 May 2027
A one-man rearguard from Danila Sokol
There were 8 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.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 May 2027
Tempers go at BATE
Anton Suchkov 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 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Egor Kress
“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.
Player ratings3 May 2027
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.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Apr 2027
38 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match24 Apr 2027
BATE get the job done against Niva
A 3‑2 win over Niva, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.32, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad26 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BATE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.88, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
A performance of 8.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladislav Ignatjev, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Apr 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Apr 2027
Tempers go at BATE
Vladislav Yatskevich 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.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.41, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
A performance of 8.38 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match10 Apr 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Haik Moussakhanian trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at BATE
Cheick Oumar Souaré 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I want to play”: Newertton speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market28 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Neman is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Dec 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 Neman this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 150% of everything Neman earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Neman may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market14 Dec 2026
Maxim Kravtsov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Neman they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Dec 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 Neman this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Artur Nazarenko commits to Neman for another 4 years.
Squad14 Dec 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 Dec 2026
Experience through the door at Neman
Dmitriy Gradoboev arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
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Steady
Market30 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Anton Suchkov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Anton Suchkov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Neman the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad30 Nov 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 Neman this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
167% of the income goes out in wages at Neman
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.
Squad30 Nov 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Asion Daja has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Asion Daja keeps the shirt for now, at Neman's convenience rather than his own.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Shérif Jimoh 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 Neman, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Neman may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market16 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Neman is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad16 Nov 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 Neman this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market2 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Anton Suchkov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Anton Suchkov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Neman the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Neman
Asion Daja 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
167% of the income goes out in wages at Neman
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Asion Daja
“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.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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Steady
Market19 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Maxim Kravtsov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Maxim Kravtsov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Neman the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Oct 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 Neman this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anton Suchkov, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market5 Oct 2026
Anton Suchkov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Neman they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Neman may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Neman are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad5 Oct 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 Neman this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 228% of everything Neman earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Asion Daja gets it from the manager
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match23 Sep 2026
Neman through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over BATE, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match26 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Neman
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market28 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Dmitriy Girs
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Dmitriy Girs will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Neman the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Neman
Mikhail Gordeychuk 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.
Squad28 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.43 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad28 Sep 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Mikhail Philippov knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Match26 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market21 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Maxim Kravtsov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Maxim Kravtsov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Neman the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match19 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Neman do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Neman
Asion Daja 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Vitebsk made Neman work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Yuriy Pantia gets it from the manager
“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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market21 Sep 2026
Ostrovets are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Neman will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Every debut is a small story about the future: Faustino Barone, 20 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Neman is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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.
Squad7 Sep 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 Neman this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Guljigit Borubaev and Neman agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
183% of the income goes out in wages at Neman
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
“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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market7 Sep 2026
He is 20, and nobody at Neman signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Match5 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Steady
Match26 Aug 2026
Neman through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Isloch, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market31 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Neman is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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.
Market31 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 24 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Asion Daja 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 Neman this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
Neman through in the cup
A 2‑0 win over Slavia Mozyr, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market24 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.
Market24 Aug 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 Neman, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Ilya Kirko
Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Ilya Kirko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ilya Kirko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Neman the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market24 Aug 2026
Neman get their man
The chase for Uladzimir Ihnatovich ended with $570.0K changing hands and Lokomotiv Gomel out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
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 Neman this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Mikhail Philippov knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.03 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Crisis
Market17 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Bumprom Gomel have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Alexey Shalashnikov. The answer from Neman has not changed — yet.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Neman
Mikhail Gordeychuk 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.
Squad17 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Neman against Slutsk
0‑1 to Slutsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
Neman say no — this time
The offer from Bumprom Gomel for Mateush Montevka 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Asion Daja 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 Neman this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mateush Montevka commits to Neman for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Anton Suchkov
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Neman, another week without a signature from Alexey Shalashnikov.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Oleg Evdokimov’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.