Marked for Erik Torosyan
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Upbeat
Match24 Apr 2027
Whatever happens, Dnepr Mogilev do not lose
8 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Egor Karpitskiy 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.
Match24 Apr 2027
After 7 games, Dnepr Mogilev finally taste it again
The first defeat in 7 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Molodechno; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maxim Kasarab was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Erik Torosyan
“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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Kirill Makas chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dmitriy Lisakovich trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.64 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dnepr Mogilev may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dmitriy Guschenko and Dnepr Mogilev agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
2 academy graduates step up at Dnepr Mogilev
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitriy Lisakovich 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 terraces8 Mar 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Egor Karpitskiy 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
Belshina made Dnepr Mogilev work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market8 Mar 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ruslan Shikavka has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Steady
Market23 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Egor Karpitskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrey Denisyuk 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.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Osipovichi to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dnepr Mogilev and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Market12 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Nenad Perović
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nenad Perović will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dnepr Mogilev the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Egor Karpitskiy 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrey Denisyuk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Erik Torosyan, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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 dugout12 Oct 2026
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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Roman Piletskiy has written the date down.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Fedor Yurkevich’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.