Marked for Ivan Mamavko
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market10 Sep 2029
“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.
Boardroom10 Sep 2029
Window shuts: 13 in, 18 out at Torpedo Miass
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 13 arrived, 18 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad10 Sep 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Miass this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Sep 2029
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Kaluga have kept their man, and Torpedo Miass go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Dmitry Kuzmin 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.
Boardroom10 Sep 2029
Wages eat 96% of everything Torpedo Miass 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.
Squad10 Sep 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andrei Davydov and Torpedo Miass agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Sep 2029
“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.
The dugout10 Sep 2029
“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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Uneasy
Squad3 Sep 2029
18 days out for Ivan Mamavko after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Torpedo Miass will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match1 Sep 2029
11 matches without a win, and then this, against Irtysh. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Market3 Sep 2029
Mikhail Kotov hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torpedo Miass can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Sep 2029
11 seasons and 234 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Alexandr Balakhonov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom3 Sep 2029
The owner puts $21.5K into Torpedo Miass
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
Transfer targets3 Sep 2029
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.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Dmitry Kuzmin 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.
Match1 Sep 2029
Irtysh made Torpedo Miass work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Uneasy
Match25 Aug 2029
11 matches without a win for Torpedo Miass
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Torpedo Miass are no longer polite ones.
Match27 Aug 2029
Position 7, 1 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Ivan Mamavko breaks a bone — 25 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Alexandr Balakhonov 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 targets27 Aug 2029
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Vologda have kept their man, and Torpedo Miass go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Boardroom27 Aug 2029
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
The dugout27 Aug 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcos Pacheco, and the manager let it.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
Marked 7.99 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Torpedo Miass had the best player on the pitch.
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Crisis
Match18 Aug 2029
No end in sight to Torpedo Miass's wait for a win
10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Torpedo Miass has to find a result from somewhere.
Match18 Aug 2029
10 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Match15 Aug 2029
Out, 0‑2 to Uralets-TS, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Ivan Mamavko breaks a bone — 32 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad20 Aug 2029
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.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Alexandr Balakhonov 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.
Transfer targets20 Aug 2029
Torpedo Miass asked and Legion said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Words at Torpedo Miass training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Kuzmin 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.
Market20 Aug 2029
The name of Andrey Trofimov has come up in conversations Torpedo Miass were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Crisis
Squad13 Aug 2029
Ivan Mamavko breaks a bone — 39 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match11 Aug 2029
8 matches without a win for Torpedo Miass
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Torpedo Miass are no longer polite ones.
Match11 Aug 2029
8 matches without a goal for Torpedo Miass
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 8 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad13 Aug 2029
At 17 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad13 Aug 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Miass this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Aug 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Danil Goryaev and Torpedo Miass agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets13 Aug 2029
Torpedo Miass asked and Tyumen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match11 Aug 2029
Murom left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout13 Aug 2029
The manager makes an example of Ivan Kotelnikov
“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
Uneasy
The terraces22 Jan 2029
Anger at Bumprom Gomel spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
The dugout22 Jan 2029
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bumprom Gomel may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad22 Jan 2029
51 days out for Ivan Mamavko after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Bumprom Gomel will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout22 Jan 2029
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Squad22 Jan 2029
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.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Boardroom22 Jan 2029
Wages eat 90% of everything Bumprom Gomel 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.
The dugout22 Jan 2029
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Market22 Jan 2029
Bumprom Gomel shop where it costs nothing
Arseniy Asonov signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.
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Uneasy
Boardroom15 Jan 2029
Pressure builds in the Bumprom Gomel boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Ivan Mamavko breaks a bone — 58 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 58 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout15 Jan 2029
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Squad15 Jan 2029
Artem Miroevskiy 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.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Words at Bumprom Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikhail Kazimir 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.
The dugout15 Jan 2029
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Dmitriy Latykhov is on it.
Market15 Jan 2029
7 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Bumprom Gomel could get for him.
The dugout15 Jan 2029
Anton Shikavka knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Anton Shikavka trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market15 Jan 2029
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Aidan Magfurov leaves Bumprom Gomel the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Uneasy
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Ivan Mamavko breaks a bone — 65 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 65 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad8 Jan 2029
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.
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
$210.4K of the owner's money at Bumprom Gomel
The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Zhevnerenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout8 Jan 2029
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Yaroslav Makushinskiy is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.
Market8 Jan 2029
“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.
Squad8 Jan 2029
“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 37 with 442 appearances behind him, and Bumprom Gomel have to plan for both answers.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Jan 2029
16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bumprom Gomel lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad1 Jan 2029
A fracture rules Ivan Mamavko out for 72 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bumprom Gomel will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad1 Jan 2029
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Bumprom Gomel will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Artem Miroevskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom1 Jan 2029
The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.
Boardroom1 Jan 2029
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
The dugout1 Jan 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmitriy Kaplunov, and the manager let it.
Market1 Jan 2029
“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.
The dugout1 Jan 2029
Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. Yaroslav Makushinskiy was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Dec 2028
23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bumprom Gomel lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The terraces25 Dec 2028
Anger at Bumprom Gomel spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad25 Dec 2028
Ivan Mamavko breaks a bone — 79 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 79 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout25 Dec 2028
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Squad25 Dec 2028
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.
Boardroom25 Dec 2028
139% 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Dec 2028
Nikita Karpuk damages knee ligaments — 30 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom18 Dec 2028
Pressure builds in the Bumprom Gomel boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Ivan Mamavko breaks a bone — 86 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 86 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout18 Dec 2028
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Squad18 Dec 2028
Artem Miroevskiy 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.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Dec 2028
37 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bumprom Gomel lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad11 Dec 2028
93 days out for Ivan Mamavko after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Bumprom Gomel will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Artem Miroevskiy 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.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Words at Bumprom Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
The dugout11 Dec 2028
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Bumprom Gomel told Artem Zhevnerenko something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market11 Dec 2028
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Dec 2028
Nikita Karpuk damages knee ligaments — 44 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 44 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad4 Dec 2028
A fracture rules Ivan Mamavko out for 100 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bumprom Gomel will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Artem Miroevskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom4 Dec 2028
$215.5K of the owner's money at Bumprom Gomel
The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.
Boardroom4 Dec 2028
The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.
Boardroom4 Dec 2028
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
Market4 Dec 2028
“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 Ivan Zhestkin.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Bumprom Gomel, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Bumprom Gomel. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Uneasy
Squad27 Nov 2028
Nikita Karpuk damages knee ligaments — 51 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 51 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The terraces27 Nov 2028
The mood at Bumprom Gomel has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad27 Nov 2028
Ivan Mamavko breaks a bone — 107 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 107 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad27 Nov 2028
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Bumprom Gomel had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
The dugout27 Nov 2028
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Squad27 Nov 2028
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad20 Nov 2028
58 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bumprom Gomel lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom20 Nov 2028
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Bumprom Gomel is running low.
Squad20 Nov 2028
Ivan Mamavko breaks a bone — 114 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 114 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout20 Nov 2028
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Squad20 Nov 2028
Dmitriy Latykhov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad20 Nov 2028
Words at Bumprom Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad13 Nov 2028
A fracture rules Ivan Mamavko out for 121 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bumprom Gomel will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Artem Miroevskiy 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.
The dugout13 Nov 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmitriy Kaplunov, and the manager let it.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Valery Arlouski 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.
Market13 Nov 2028
“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 Alexandr Turuk.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom25 Sep 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Bumprom Gomel
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad25 Sep 2028
46 days out for Alexandr Turuk after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Bumprom Gomel will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout25 Sep 2028
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Squad25 Sep 2028
Artem Miroevskiy 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.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Artem Zhevnerenko 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 dugout25 Sep 2028
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.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Sep 2028
60 days out for Alexandr Turuk after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Bumprom Gomel will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market11 Sep 2028
Ivan Mamavko hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bumprom Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom11 Sep 2028
Bumprom Gomel close the window on a squad of their own making
25 in and 10 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad11 Sep 2028
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.
Transfer targets11 Sep 2028
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.
Market11 Sep 2028
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Anton Savitski is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Sep 2028
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ivan Pavlov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market11 Sep 2028
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pavel Balanovich has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Boardroom11 Sep 2028
The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.
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Upbeat
The terraces7 Aug 2028
The mood at Bumprom Gomel has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Player ratings7 Aug 2028
A brace, and Kirill Sidorenko takes the afternoon — 8.91
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kirill Sidorenko provided it, and the 8.91 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market7 Aug 2028
“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 Bumprom Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout7 Aug 2028
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Squad7 Aug 2028
Artem Miroevskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match5 Aug 2028
Whatever happens, Bumprom Gomel do not lose
6 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.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
$224.0K from the owner keeps Bumprom Gomel afloat
The gap in the accounts was filled from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be grateful and to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings arrive together.
Transfer targets7 Aug 2028
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 Aug 2028
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market31 Jan 2028
“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 Bumprom Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Jan 2028
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.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
Bumprom Gomel asked and Lokomotiv Gomel said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Market31 Jan 2028
“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.
Market31 Jan 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kirill Parmonov signs something — a contract at Bumprom Gomel or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
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.
Boardroom31 Jan 2028
Open for business: Bumprom Gomel enter the window
The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.
Market31 Jan 2028
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Ivan Mamavko may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Crisis
The terraces27 Dec 2027
The mood at Bumprom Gomel has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Match27 Dec 2027
21 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market27 Dec 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.
Market27 Dec 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bumprom Gomel is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Artem Miroevskiy 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.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Boardroom27 Dec 2027
Wages swallow 195% of the Bumprom Gomel income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
Boardroom27 Dec 2027
No fees may be paid for anybody, whatever the squad needs. Every rumour about this club until it lifts is a rumour about a deal that cannot be done.
Boardroom27 Dec 2027
The borrowing at Bumprom Gomel reaches $4.8M
Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $4.8M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.