Marked for Timofey Tkachev
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Nov 2027
Timur Pukhov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikolay Ryabykh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
Egor Lapun 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.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
131% of the income goes out in wages at Baranovichi
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 dugout1 Nov 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Baranovichi, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
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.
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Steady
Market13 Sep 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Baranovichi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom13 Sep 2027
Window shuts: 16 in, 6 out at Baranovichi
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market13 Sep 2027
Only the photograph left for Yegor Dorofeev
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yegor Dorofeev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Baranovichi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets13 Sep 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Baranovichi have done the hard part with Slavia Mozyr, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Boardroom13 Sep 2027
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Timur Pukhov 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 Baranovichi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets13 Sep 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Words at Baranovichi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Egor Lapun 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
Match23 Aug 2027
42 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Squad23 Aug 2027
16 days out for Vadim Balbukh after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Baranovichi will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.05 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match21 Aug 2027
Baranovichi make home a hard place to visit
13 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Timur Pukhov 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.
Match21 Aug 2027
A 3‑1 win over Lida, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Baranovichi asked and Torpedo-BelAZ said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Egor Lapun was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces23 Aug 2027
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
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Steady
Match31 Jul 2027
0‑3 against Bumprom Gomel, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad2 Aug 2027
38 days out for Vadim Balbukh after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Baranovichi will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match31 Jul 2027
14 matches without defeat, and then Bumprom Gomel. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Market2 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Timur Pukhov 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 targets2 Aug 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Egor Lapun 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 dugout2 Aug 2027
Egor Lapun 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 ratings2 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Jul 2027
45 days out for Vadim Balbukh after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Baranovichi will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match24 Jul 2027
Still nobody has beaten Baranovichi
The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market26 Jul 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Baranovichi people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.66 for the rest of it.
Match24 Jul 2027
The run at home goes on for Baranovichi
11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
No thanks: Yan Shumskiy rejects the move
Baranovichi had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at BATE, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Timur Pukhov 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 targets26 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Brest have kept their man, and Baranovichi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Jun 2027
Vadim Balbukh breaks a bone — 95 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 95 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match5 Jun 2027
The 86th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Stanislav Stefanovich decided nobody was going anywhere. Uni-X Labs had no time left to answer.
Match5 Jun 2027
Still nobody has beaten Baranovichi
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Timur Pukhov 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Baranovichi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikolay Ryabykh 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 terraces7 Jun 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Stanislav Stefanovich 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.
Match5 Jun 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Stanislav Stefanovich. 1‑0 against Uni-X Labs, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Loan watch7 Jun 2027
Artem Petrenko is tired of being somebody else's player
“Another season, another badge, another dressing room to win over. I would like one pre-season at Baranovichi where somebody actually looks at me.” He belongs to Neman until the spell ends; the argument is with the club that owns him.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Timofey Tkachev
“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.
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Upbeat
Squad24 May 2027
Vadim Balbukh breaks a bone — 110 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 110 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings24 May 2027
A brace, and Alexandr Podbeltsev takes the afternoon — 8.65
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Alexandr Podbeltsev provided it, and the 8.65 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match24 May 2027
First, on 20 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Squad24 May 2027
There were 6 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 May 2027
Timur Pukhov 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 Baranovichi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 May 2027
Whatever happens, Baranovichi do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad24 May 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Egor Lapun was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces24 May 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Timofey Tkachev 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.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
Timur Pukhov 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 dugout18 Jan 2027
“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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
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 Valeriy Potorocha is on it.