Marked for Maxim Kravtsov
From our football correspondent
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Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrey Yakimov
76 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Neman lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout16 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.
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
Nejc Viher 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Shérif Jimoh, and the manager let it.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I watch every Neman game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Osipovichi runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout16 Nov 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Mikhail Kozlov asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ilya Kirko: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Neman will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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Squad19 Oct 2026
106 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Neman lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Neman will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.91 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
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
A falling-out at Neman
Mikhail Kozlov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match17 Oct 2026
Dinamo Minsk left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The decline has begun for Yuriy Pantia
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 36 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Neman is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I watch every Neman game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Osipovichi runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrey Yakimov
143 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Neman lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Neman can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 13 in, 10 out at Neman
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 13 arrived, 10 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market14 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The name of Nikita Matysyuk has come up in conversations Neman were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sabah have kept their man, and Neman go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout14 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 ratings14 Sep 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.83, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Match19 Aug 2026
Neman through in the cup
A 3‑1 win over Belshina, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.56 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Lokomotiv Gomel waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Neman is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market24 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Neman did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Kirill Semashko, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.70
A mark of 7.70 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Neman
Mikhail Kozlov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 20 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Pavel Savitskiy had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Neman
Mikhail Kozlov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market17 Aug 2026
Daniil Zhidkevich has left for Belshina in a $34.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Neman know which stage they are at.
The dugout17 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.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Slutsk in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Squad10 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market10 Aug 2026
Molodechno come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Neman did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: AGMK have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Pavel Savitskiy. The answer from Neman has not changed — yet.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Anton Suchkov 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Dmitry Radikovskiy scored, and precious little else went right: 3‑5 to BATE, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.90, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
Squad10 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
8 goals in one match, Dmitry Radikovskiy on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Neman and BATE.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Brest have kept their man, and Neman go back to a list with one name crossed off it.