The Molodechno Sentinel
Squad25 Sep 2028
The knee: Nikita Bylinkin out for 28 days
28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Molodechno lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match25 Sep 2028
Molodechno up to position 2
49 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Words exchanged at Molodechno
Maxim Yablonskiy and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Words at Molodechno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Deryugin 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.
The dugout25 Sep 2028
No hiding place for Nikita Bylinkin
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Bylinkin, and the manager let it.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Fedor Solovey stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Fedor Solovey and Molodechno agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market25 Sep 2028
The shop window has Stanislav Atrashkevich in it
Molodechno have let the market know Stanislav Atrashkevich can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
The dugout25 Sep 2028
Denis Gruzhevskiy gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Denis Gruzhevskiy is on it.
The dugout25 Sep 2028
Alexandr Bakinovskiy 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 Alexandr Bakinovskiy trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Market Molodechno shop where it costs nothing
- Market Daniil Kankharey joins Molodechno on a free
- The dugout A door opens for Fedor Solovey