Yegor Sysoev

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Veles
25 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Yegor Sysoev

11 Edition

The Veles Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Alexandr Shubin runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

The wait goes on for Veles

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Ishkhan Geloyan 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 Veles this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Pavel Popov

“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.

Squad

Tiago Sousa 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.

Squad

When it matters, Yegor Sysoev plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Veles Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Karim Giraev 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 Veles can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

A brace, and Alexandr Shubin takes the afternoon — 8.26

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Alexandr Shubin provided it, and the 8.26 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

Veles refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 9 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $260.0K sale of Oleg Smirnov

He is going to Chelyabinsk, the club has $260.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Player ratings

Yegor Sysoev, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.62

A mark of 7.62 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Tempers go at Veles

Ishkhan Geloyan 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.

Market

Oleg Smirnov moves on

Chelyabinsk pay $260.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Match

Alexandr Shubin the difference as Veles beat Textilschik

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Alexandr Shubin. 3‑2 against Textilschik, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Tiago Sousa signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tiago Sousa commits to Veles for another 3 years.

In brief

5 Edition

The Veles Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Artur Koloskov puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Veles, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Ishkhan Geloyan 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 Veles this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Zakhar Tarasenko

“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

Sibir take the points off Veles

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

Chelyabinsk expected to open talks for Oleg Smirnov

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Veles will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vladislav Galkin

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

The shop window has Rasul Mitsaev in it

Veles have let the market know Rasul Mitsaev can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Squad

Fernando Macedo 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 Veles, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

When it matters, Yegor Sysoev plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

4 Edition

The Veles Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Ionafan Sapozhnikov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 45. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Veles march on in the cup

Khimik are out and Veles go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Market

Oleg Smirnov asks to leave Veles

“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.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Yegor Sysoev at 20 — 8.06

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Yegor Sysoev did not need any: 8.06, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Tempers go at Veles

Ishkhan Geloyan 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.

Market

Business is business: Alexandr Krasnopevtsev goes

Kolomna paid $6.0K and Veles took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

The terraces

Veles supporters have found a favourite in Ionafan Sapozhnikov

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Ionafan Sapozhnikov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

Rasul Mitsaev 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

Veles find a way past Leningradets

Leningradets made Veles work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief