Marked for Ilya Dubinets
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Dec 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Minsk
Emmanuel Uchenna Aririerisim 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
99 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Ilya Dubinets
“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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The name of Matej Oravec keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Minsk say nothing, which says plenty.
Market14 Dec 2026
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Ivan Berezun arrives at Minsk with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Dec 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Minsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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 Minsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ji-hun Park, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ilya Dubinets 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 Ilya Dubinets trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market7 Dec 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Minsk know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Minsk shop where it costs nothing
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 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 Minsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Emir Ernisov
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ilya Dubinets 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 Ilya Dubinets trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.