Marked for Vladimir Bashun
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
Ján Gregus breaks a bone — 90 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 90 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Ján Gregus 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A move Vladimir Bashun would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Vladimir Bashun is living that version at Neman, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Neman training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matej Oravec 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
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.
Market4 Jan 2027
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
In brief
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The clock runs on Evgeniy Zemko's contract
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Neman shop where it costs nothing
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Pavel Bordukov
68 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Orsha lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Maxim Makarov breaks a bone — 120 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 120 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad4 Jan 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 Orsha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Diyorbek To'laboyev has just signed for Orsha, and for once the answer mattered.
Market4 Jan 2027
“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 Egor Yuschenko.
Market4 Jan 2027
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
Pavel Bordukov damages knee ligaments — 97 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 97 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Nelson Seguel out for 107 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Orsha will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Artem Antonov: 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.” Orsha have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
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Uneasy
Market9 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Orsha they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad9 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 Orsha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Nelson Seguel 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.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Orsha
Nelson Seguel 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
Juan Pablo Miño 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.
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Orsha they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad12 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 Orsha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Egor Yuschenko 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.
In brief
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This league is too small for Nelson Seguel
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Too much change too quickly at Orsha
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
Denis Rudenok 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Ivan Ageev 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 Orsha can pretend not to have heard.
Market14 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Orsha they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Vladimir Bashun 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.
Squad14 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 Orsha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 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.
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Uneasy
Market24 Aug 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Orsha's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Orsha has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Orsha training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Egor Yuschenko 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Abdulaziz Lawal 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.
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Crisis
Market10 Aug 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Orsha say no — this time
The offer from Gomel for Temerlan Salimov 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.04 for the rest of it.
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.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Belshina left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Abdulaziz Lawal
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Roman Kravchenko and Orsha agree another 3 years.
Market10 Aug 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.