The Gomel Chronicle
Squad25 Jan 2027
The knee: Sergey Matveychik out for 99 days
99 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Gomel lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market25 Jan 2027
Vadzim Hryshyn asks to leave Gomel
“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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Alexandr Rakhmatov out for 29 days
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Alexandr Rakhmatov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Denis Kovalevich
“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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Gomel
Oleg Kovalev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Pavel Pashevich 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
- The dugout Evgeniy Barsukov asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout Gleb Protasenya gets picked when it counts
- Market The Pavel Pashevich talk will not go away
- The dugout The manager comes out for Vadzim Hryshyn