From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match15 Nov 2027
44 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market15 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad15 Nov 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
Market27 Sep 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Molodechno is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad27 Sep 2027
79 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad27 Sep 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.
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Upbeat
Match20 Sep 2027
44 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad20 Sep 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.
Squad20 Sep 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.
Market20 Sep 2027
Molodechno spent the window trying to move Stanislav Atrashkevich on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Daniil Perov 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 Molodechno, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market20 Sep 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Molodechno know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Match7 Aug 2027
Still nobody has beaten Molodechno
The unbeaten run reaches 24. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad9 Aug 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
13 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vladislav Belashevich and Molodechno agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 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.
Market9 Aug 2027
Experience through the door at Molodechno
Kristaps Savalnieks arrives at 33 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
Match17 Jul 2027
Still nobody has beaten Molodechno
The unbeaten run reaches 21. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Artem Miroevskiy: 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.” Molodechno have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match17 Jul 2027
Three points for Molodechno, 2-1 the final word against Niva in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad19 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Molodechno pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Market19 Jul 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Molodechno know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match12 Jun 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 17 matches without defeat is a foundation Molodechno did not have in the autumn.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Daniil Perov: 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.” Molodechno have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match12 Jun 2027
No end in sight to Molodechno's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Molodechno has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad14 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.
Match12 Jun 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Bumprom Gomel came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market14 Jun 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Molodechno know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Market8 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad8 Feb 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Edgar Mendoza 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 Molodechno, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market8 Feb 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Yassine Bara may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Artur Sagitov has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Artur Sagitov keeps the shirt for now, at Molodechno's convenience rather than his own.
Market8 Feb 2027
A season-long audition: Smorgon still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Molodechno's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.