Marked for Stepan Gomonov
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
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.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I watch every Slonim game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Osipovichi runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Vladimir Dziov: 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Slonim know it.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Slonim
8 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.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Dinamo Minsk, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad24 Aug 2026
There were 8 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Thuto Sesipi 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ivan Stosh 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ivan Stosh has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Osipovichi will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Market24 Aug 2026
Osipovichi have made Ivan Stosh available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 5.68, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Upbeat
Match12 Aug 2026
Slonim through in the cup
A 0‑0 win over Vitebsk, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Dmitriy Sai is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Dmitriy Sai: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Market17 Aug 2026
Slonim say no — this time
The offer from Lokomotiv Gomel for Denis Miskevich was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Roman Mushulov
“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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Uni-X Labs will make the call about Soslan Dzarasov this week. Slonim have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
5.26 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
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Triumph
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Three points for Slonim, 1‑0 the final word against Baranovichi in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zikrula Abdurakhmanov, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Slonim, another week without a signature from Zikrula Abdurakhmanov.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
7.70, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Slonim had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sardar Hosseini and Slonim agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market10 Aug 2026
No place for Vitaliy Para in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Vitaliy Para has his answer from Slonim; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dmitriy Sai and Slonim agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Slonim
Dmitriy Vechorko 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Slonim have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
No place for Dmitriy Sai in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Dmitriy Sai has his answer from Slonim; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Match1 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nikita Chuyko. 1‑0 against Osipovichi, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.