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Crisis
Squad15 Nov 2027
Dmitriy Sai gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Archie Taylor is starting to look at home
The language is arriving, the jokes are landing, and there is somebody at the next peg to talk to. None of it appears in a scouting report and all of it shows up on the pitch.
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Crisis
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
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.
Match4 Oct 2027
Slonim sink to position 11
22 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market4 Oct 2027
Leeyon Phelan 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 Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Oct 2027
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mitch Apau commits to Slonim for another 1 years.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Wages eat 209% of everything Slonim 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.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
The Slonim debt reaches $4.0M
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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Denis Miskevich
“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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Stepan Gomonov 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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Uneasy
Boardroom27 Sep 2027
Pressure builds in the Slonim boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market27 Sep 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slonim is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad27 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Dmitriy Sai
“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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
The medical room confirms 46 days on the sidelines for Archie Taylor, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Denis Miskevich and Slonim agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market27 Sep 2027
1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Slonim money.
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Uneasy
Market13 Sep 2027
Ilya Lebedev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slonim they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom13 Sep 2027
Slonim counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Slonim now.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Stepan Gomonov
“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.
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Crisis
Market15 Mar 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.
Match13 Mar 2027
7 matches without a win for Slonim
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Slonim are no longer polite ones.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Denis Miskevich: 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.” Slonim have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Mitch Apau
“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.
Match13 Mar 2027
Slonim come up short against Orsha
Orsha left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market15 Mar 2027
The name of Marat Kalinchenko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Slonim say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
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 Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Match22 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Slonim
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Slonim are no longer polite ones.
Match22 Aug 2026
Niva take the points off Slonim
Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.