Marked for Ivan Furmanov
From our football correspondent
Steady
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Slonim have done the hard part with Vitebsk, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market22 Feb 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Slonim
Dmitriy Sai 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.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Nikita Chuyko 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.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“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.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
A loan move for Pedro Acácio is in the works
Slonim have made the call to Torpedo-BelAZ. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
86% of the income goes out in wages at Slonim
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.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Artur Chuyko 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 Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alexandr Turuk
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Slonim lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Dmitriy Sai 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 Slonim this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Roman Mushulov 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
31 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Slonim lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market11 Jan 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Slonim
Dmitriy Sai and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market11 Jan 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Valery Skavysh is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Jan 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Valery Klimovich has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Slonim training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roman Mushulov 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.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
81 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Slonim lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market23 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Artur Chuyko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artur Chuyko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slonim the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Dmitriy Sai 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 Slonim this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artur Chuyko, and the manager let it.
Market23 Nov 2026
The clock does Roman Mushulov’s negotiating for him
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Slonim could ask drops and the wages Roman Mushulov can ask rise.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Ivan Furmanov 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 Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market28 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Artur Chuyko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artur Chuyko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slonim the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Dmitriy Sai 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 Slonim this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rady Yamlikhanov, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Slonim training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roman Mushulov 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Slonim
10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Market28 Sep 2026
The clock does Roman Mushulov’s negotiating for him
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Slonim could ask drops and the wages Roman Mushulov can ask rise.