Nikolay Sobolev

Striker - Dnepr Mogilev
14 Nov 2027
Sunday
Process
56 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Dnepr Mogilev are in real trouble now

Position 13, 21 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.

Market

Vadim Arutyunyan 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 Dnepr Mogilev can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Dmitriy Guschenko

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

5 matches without a win for Dnepr Mogilev

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Dnepr Mogilev are no longer polite ones.

Loan watch

Nikolay Sobolev has seen enough of Belshina

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Dnepr Mogilev, and 4 appearances in 26 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Timofey Martynov

“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.

Match

No goals between Dnepr Mogilev and Slutsk

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Slutsk will be the happier side with the point.

The terraces

The stands have heard the Vadim Arutyunyan talk too

What was a back-page story is now a matter for the terraces, and the terraces do not do nuance. Dnepr Mogilev would like it dealt with before it becomes the only question anybody asks.

Squad

Mikhail Klyakin knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dnepr Mogilev, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
52 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Daniil Zhabrakov: 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.” Dnepr Mogilev have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Dmitriy Guschenko 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.

Match

Dnepr Mogilev come up short against Smorgon

Smorgon left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

48 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

9 matches without a win for Dnepr Mogilev

The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Dnepr Mogilev are no longer polite ones.

Match

Dnepr Mogilev are in real trouble now

Position 13, 13 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.

Match

Dnepr Mogilev come up short against Dinamo Minsk

Dinamo Minsk left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Vladislav Tarasenko out for 26 days

The medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for Vladislav Tarasenko, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Stanislav Demkiv 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.

Loan watch

Nikolay Sobolev has seen enough of Belshina

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Dnepr Mogilev, and 4 appearances in 18 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

44 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

5 matches without a win for Dnepr Mogilev

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Dnepr Mogilev are no longer polite ones.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Dnepr Mogilev

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Dnepr Mogilev lose Vladislav Tarasenko

55 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Stanislav Demkiv 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.

Loan watch

Nikolay Sobolev wants to come home

“I did not go to Belshina to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dnepr Mogilev and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.

Match

Dnepr Mogilev and Belshina cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Belshina came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

In brief

40 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Andrey Potapenko 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.

Loan watch

Nikolay Sobolev wants to come home

“I did not go to Belshina to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dnepr Mogilev and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 10 matches say the rest.

Market

Dnepr Mogilev and Maxim Zhabitskiy are talking past each other

“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.

In brief

36 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The cup run ends for Dnepr Mogilev

0-1 against Belshina, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match

6 matches without a win for Dnepr Mogilev

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Dnepr Mogilev are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Kirill Kirilenko 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.

Loan watch

Nikolay Sobolev wants to come home

“I did not go to Belshina to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dnepr Mogilev and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.

Squad

The armband comes off Dmitriy Guschenko

Dnepr Mogilev will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

Squad

Dmitriy Guschenko knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dnepr Mogilev, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

30 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Andrey Shemruk: 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.” Dnepr Mogilev have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom

239% of the income goes out in wages at Dnepr Mogilev

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.

Market

Roman Piletskiy linked with a move away

The name of Roman Piletskiy keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Dnepr Mogilev say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

28 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Nikita Bylinkin signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nikita Bylinkin commits to Dnepr Mogilev for another 3 years.

Market

Slonim are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Dnepr Mogilev will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

Maxim Zhabitskiy 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Artem Makavchik 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 Dnepr Mogilev can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Uni-X Labs come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Dnepr Mogilev did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Match

Dnepr Mogilev find a way past Slonim

Slonim made Dnepr Mogilev work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Artem Makavchik

“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.

Market

The Artem Makavchik talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dnepr Mogilev know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Nikita Krasnov unhappy with how he is being used

Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Nikita Krasnov has let it be known that he does not like the way Dnepr Mogilev are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.

In brief