Matvey Susha

Striker - Naftan
24 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Matvey Susha

5 Edition

The Naftan Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Alexey Kharitonovich puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Naftan, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Ruslan Myalkovskiy at 20 — 7.75

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ruslan Myalkovskiy did not need any: 7.75, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Transfer targets

An offer of $440.0K for Ivan Zenkov

Naftan have gone to Dinamo Brest with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market

Orsha come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Naftan did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Zsombor Gruber

Naftan asked and Ferencvaros 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Ruslan Myalkovskiy

At 20 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.

Match

Naftan end the wait against Vitebsk

It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

The dugout

No hiding place for Alexey Kharitonovich

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexey Kharitonovich, and the manager let it.

Match

Ruslan Myalkovskiy the difference as Naftan beat Vitebsk

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ruslan Myalkovskiy. 1‑0 against Vitebsk, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

  • Squad 13 new faces, and Naftan are still learning each other
  • Squad Tempers go at Naftan
  • Player ratings Matvey Susha beats them one at a time
Back issues
3 Edition

The Naftan Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Naftan out of the cup

Bumprom Gomel ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market

Vadim Yakovlev has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Naftan they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Donatas Kuklys rejects the move

Naftan had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Trakai, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Match

4 matches without a win for Naftan

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Naftan are no longer polite ones.

Boardroom

Vadim Yakovlev has agreed to leave Naftan for nothing

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.

Squad

A falling-out at Naftan

Yamoussa Camara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Peter Cverle

Naftan asked and ND Gorica said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Dinamo Brest are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Naftan will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Naftan dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief

2 Edition

The Naftan Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Maxim Druchik gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Maxim Druchik has just signed for Naftan, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Naftan turn down Baranovichi for Artemiy Litvinov

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Yegor Ushakov is a medical away from Naftan

The deal with Rodina is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market

Dinamo Brest join the queue for Artem Drabatovich

Add another name to the list: Dinamo Brest have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Artem Drabatovich. The answer from Naftan has not changed — yet.

Squad

Tempers go at Naftan

Yamoussa Camara 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.

Boardroom

Naftan agree a free transfer for Dmitriy Vashkevich

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Transfer targets

Naftan rebuffed over Gregor Oblak

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. NK Domzale have kept their man, and Naftan go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The terraces

One of their own: Anatoliy Sannikov

He is 22 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.

Market

Artem Shikavka steps up from the Naftan academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Artem 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.

In brief