The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around BATE people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around BATE they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Gil Vicente keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
A season average of 7.09 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. BATE know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
BATE offered $130.0K; Dinamo Brest said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Dinamo Minsk paid $220.0K and BATE took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Dinamo Minsk have lost him in all but the paperwork.
The offer from Arsenal Dzerzhinsk for Daniil Dushevskiy 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.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abdoul Aziz Touré will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Minsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Dinamo Minsk asked and Uni-X Labs said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Dinamo Minsk offered $45.0K; Dnepr Mogilev said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Kirill Apanasevich from BATE for $220.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
In brief
SquadWords at Dinamo Minsk training over how hard people work
Two goals and a mark of 8.76 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Dinamo Minsk and Lokomotiv Gomel have settled on $550.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Daniil Dushevskiy reports back to Dinamo Minsk with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
The fee is $300.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. BATE drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
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.
The offer went to Dinamo Brest 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.
Dinamo Minsk offered $34.0K; BATE said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
The name of Vladislav Poloz has come up in conversations Dinamo Minsk were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
BATE had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Sochi, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Nikita Karmaev has just signed for BATE, and for once the answer mattered.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at BATE is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
BATE close the window on a squad of their own making
7 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
The deal that would have taken Kirill Apanasevich to Orsha has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to BATE with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BATE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
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.
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Baranovichi waiting with a shirt. Nobody at BATE is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what BATE can pretend not to have heard.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around BATE they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $81.7K — a club that wants Ilya Tishurov enough to be asked twice.
BATE had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Dinamo Moscow, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Nino Marcelli 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.
The chase for Ilya Tishurov ended with $77.0K changing hands and Osipovichi out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Matic Dimič is living that version at BATE, and it tends to show in the first month.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. BATE have done the hard part with Lokomotiv Gomel, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Isloch keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Add another name to the list: Arsenal Dzerzhinsk have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Nikita Neskoromnyi. The answer from BATE has not changed — yet.
Nino Marcelli 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.
BATE asked and Dnepr Mogilev said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yuriy Kovalev 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 board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 94th minute. Smorgon will replay every second of the added time for a week.
The match ball belongs to El Mehdi Maouhoub, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nino Marcelli, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.66
A mark of 7.66 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
The deal that would have taken Kirill Apanasevich to Neman has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to BATE with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Artem Dzyuba 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.
A 3‑2 win over Smorgon, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Andrey Ivlev 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.
BATE asked and Napredak said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 21 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexandr Shvedchikov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around BATE the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Andrey Ivlev 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Yuriy Kovalev 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Partizan have kept their man, and BATE go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The name of Kirill Apanasevich has come up in conversations BATE were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Anton Kovalev was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.40. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Andrey Ivlev did not need any: 7.84, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around BATE they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BATE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Andrey Solovey has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means BATE have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kirill Kaplenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
BATE asked and Schalke 04 said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
At 23 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.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager makes an example of Makar Anokhin