The Neman Chronicle
Squad8 Feb 2027
Yuriy Pantia breaks a bone — 67 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 67 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Baltika tell Neman: Kirill Nikishin is not for sale
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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Neman bid $160.0K for Kirill Parmonov
The offer went to Bumprom Gomel this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Neman
Anton Suchkov 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Neman ask about Zinedin Smajlović
A loan enquiry to Olympiacos: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Oleg Evdokimov asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager makes Mikhail Kozlov a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Neman. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market8 Feb 2027
The Egor Khoroshun story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Egor Khoroshun signs something — a contract at Neman or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager plants his flag on Evgeniy Yudchits
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Evgeniy Yudchits’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
In brief
- Market Nikita Matysyuk goes out on loan
- Squad Word from the training ground: Dmitry Radikovskiy
- Squad Kirill Semashko is fit again