Marked for Egor Molchan
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Upbeat
Match22 Oct 2029
58 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market22 Oct 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Minsk can pretend not to have heard.
Market22 Oct 2029
Egor Molchan has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Minsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad22 Oct 2029
Fawaz Abdullahi 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.
Squad22 Oct 2029
33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad22 Oct 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kirill Butevich, and the manager let it.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Match24 Sep 2029
Dinamo Minsk refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 58 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.
Market24 Sep 2029
“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.
Squad24 Sep 2029
18 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Artem Karatay has given nobody the chance.
Market24 Sep 2029
Only the photograph left for Egor Molchan
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Egor Molchan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Minsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 Sep 2029
Fawaz Abdullahi 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.
Player ratings24 Sep 2029
A performance of 9.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad24 Sep 2029
“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.
Match22 Sep 2029
Neman made Dinamo Minsk work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings24 Sep 2029
A performance of 8.45 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Upbeat
Squad10 Sep 2029
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market10 Sep 2029
The Niva deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Jhon González reports back to Dinamo Minsk with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Getting past Artem Karatay has become the hardest job in the division
17 clean sheets and counting. Forwards used to back themselves here; now they shoot early, shoot wide, and look for somebody to blame.
Match8 Sep 2029
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Dinamo Minsk have 3 straight wins of it.
Market10 Sep 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Fawaz Abdullahi 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.
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
A performance of 9.24 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad10 Sep 2029
7 goals and a season average of 7.41. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
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Steady
Squad29 Jan 2029
A season average of 6.58 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Dinamo Minsk know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Market29 Jan 2029
The offer from Molodechno for Ilya Kirko 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.
Squad29 Jan 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Minsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market29 Jan 2029
Add another name to the list: Orsha have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Matvey Dubatovka. The answer from Dinamo Minsk has not changed — yet.
Squad29 Jan 2029
The manager makes an example of Paco Esteban
“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.
Market29 Jan 2029
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Dinamo Minsk will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Upbeat
Market31 Jan 2028
“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.
Market31 Jan 2028
Niva come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Dinamo Minsk did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad31 Jan 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Minsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market31 Jan 2028
The name of Maxim Kravtsov has come up in conversations Dinamo Minsk were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market31 Jan 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Dinamo Minsk will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Egor Molchan 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.