Marked for Ivan Mamavko
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Dec 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 Orsha can pretend not to have heard.
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 Orsha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Orsha
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vladimir Bashun was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Andrey Romanov
“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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Alexandr Krotov 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Orsha know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Orsha. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market14 Dec 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
No fee and no fanfare: Ivan Berezun’s time at Orsha ends with a handshake, and Volna Pinsk collect a player for the price of his wages. Somebody will call it shrewd; time will name who.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market7 Dec 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 The request is on a desk at Orsha, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Roman Kravchenko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Orsha the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad7 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 Orsha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Orsha
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikita Bobchenok was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Bobchenok, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Nikita Volchenko 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.
Market7 Dec 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ilja Trynko: “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 Orsha will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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Uneasy
Market19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Orsha
Gleb Zheleznikov 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Abdulaziz Lawal 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Ivan Mamavko
“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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Orsha, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market19 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Orsha know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market19 Oct 2026
Orsha have let the market know Nikita Bobchenok can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Market19 Oct 2026
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Orsha could get for him.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Orsha is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 19 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Orsha
Nikita Volchenko 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Abdulaziz Lawal 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Orsha, another week without a signature from Evgeniy Sakuta.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Vitebsk have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Nicolai Spătar
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Nicolai Spătar has come out of that comparison in the side, and Orsha have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivan Ageev, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Match8 Aug 2026
Nowhere to hide for Orsha
1‑6 against Lida, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The stands have turned
“Enough is enough. We have watched this for months.” 5 of the 24 senior players walked off to it, and the message was not aimed at any one of them.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Orsha is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Orsha have done the hard part with Slavia Mozyr, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Boardroom10 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.
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 Orsha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ivan Mamavko among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Ivan Mamavko on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Orsha and Lida.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Artem Yablonski is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.