From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market13 Nov 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.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Maxim Vafiev 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.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Matvey Bazhanov 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.
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Uneasy
Market25 Sep 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Molodechno can pretend not to have heard.
Match23 Sep 2028
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Molodechno did not have in the autumn.
Match23 Sep 2028
Three points for Molodechno, 1-0 the final word against Dinamo Brest in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad25 Sep 2028
The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for Daniil Perov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad25 Sep 2028
“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.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Renato Hyshmeri wants a proper job in this side
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Renato Hyshmeri has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Molodechno know, and have known for weeks.
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Uneasy
Market11 Sep 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.
Match9 Sep 2028
No end in sight to Molodechno's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Molodechno has to find a result from somewhere.
Market11 Sep 2028
The Minsk deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Abdulla Mohamed reports back to Molodechno with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Match9 Sep 2028
Still nobody has beaten Molodechno
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad11 Sep 2028
“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.
Match9 Sep 2028
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Isloch came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad11 Sep 2028
“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.
Market11 Sep 2028
The name of Artur Sagitov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Molodechno say nothing, which says plenty.
Market11 Sep 2028
Window shut, Suéliton still here
Molodechno spent the window trying to move Suéliton on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
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Crisis
Match17 Jun 2028
11 matches without a win for Molodechno
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Molodechno are no longer polite ones.
Market19 Jun 2028
BATE come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Molodechno did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market19 Jun 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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
“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.
Match17 Jun 2028
Baranovichi left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market19 Jun 2028
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Molodechno have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
The terraces19 Jun 2028
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Market19 Jun 2028
The name of Artur Sagitov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Molodechno say nothing, which says plenty.
The terraces19 Jun 2028
Supporters make their feelings known about Rodrigo Mosqueda
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Molodechno would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
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Uneasy
Squad1 May 2028
The manager makes an example of Artur Sagitov
“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.
Squad1 May 2028
The captaincy has been taken off Antonio González. Molodechno will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Match29 Apr 2028
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Smorgon will be the happier side with the point.
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Upbeat
Market14 Feb 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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mohamed Force Touré commits to Molodechno for another 3 years.
Market14 Feb 2028
Suéliton placed on the list
Molodechno have made Suéliton available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Market14 Feb 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Molodechno will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Kirill Butsev knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Molodechno, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market14 Feb 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Molodechno know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Market24 Jan 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Molodechno they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad24 Jan 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Molodechno, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market24 Jan 2028
The name of Antonio González keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Molodechno say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
Squad17 Jan 2028
“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.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Matvey Bazhanov 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.
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Upbeat
Market6 Sep 2027
$340.0K. No player has ever cost Molodechno more, and expectation arrives with him.
Market6 Sep 2027
The fee is $61.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Orsha drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market6 Sep 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Molodechno will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Suéliton named player of the month
The award goes to Suéliton, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
$474.8K on the table at Molodechno
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“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.