Marked for Ivan Yerokhin
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 Aug 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market30 Aug 2027
Ivan Khovalko has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Isloch they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market30 Aug 2027
Isloch say no — this time
The offer from Orsha for Mikita Noyok 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Alimsultan Sultanaliev has, at Isloch, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Isloch
Evgeniy Yudchits and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Alexandr Svirepa 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.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slonim have kept their man, and Isloch go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market30 Aug 2027
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
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Crisis
Market2 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Isloch can pretend not to have heard.
Match31 Jul 2027
5 matches without a win for Isloch
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Isloch are no longer polite ones.
Market2 Aug 2027
Ivan Khovalko has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Isloch they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market2 Aug 2027
Isloch say no — this time
The offer from Osipovichi for Vitaliy Zygmantovich 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.
Match31 Jul 2027
4 matches without a goal for Isloch
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Isloch
Evgeniy Yudchits and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
Isloch asked and Vitebsk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Maxim Kovalevich 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.
Match31 Jul 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Steady
Market28 Jun 2027
Isloch sell their best player to Naftan
$260.0K is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Marked 8.17 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
The terraces28 Jun 2027
Supporters turn on the $260.0K sale of Alexandr Svirskiy
He is going to Naftan, the club has $260.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Squad28 Jun 2027
100 for the club now, each one filed in somebody’s memory with a date and a scoreline. Numbers like this are what supporters argue about in twenty years.
Match26 Jun 2027
Adeola Olaleye scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to BATE, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Spartak Moscow have kept their man, and Isloch go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Sergey Volkov 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.
Squad28 Jun 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 Isloch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
“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.
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Steady
Market14 Jun 2027
Only the photograph left for Ivan Yerokhin
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ivan Yerokhin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Isloch the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Isloch
Evgeniy Yudchits 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 terraces14 Jun 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Adeola Olaleye 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.
Match12 Jun 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Alexandr Butko’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Isloch.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Isloch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikita Patsko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Marked 7.88 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Isloch had the best player on the pitch.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Ivan Palitsevich, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Market17 May 2027
Ivan Yerokhin has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Isloch they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad17 May 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 Isloch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match15 May 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad17 May 2027
Words at Isloch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Patsko 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 dugout17 May 2027
“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.
The dugout17 May 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ivan Palitsevich after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout17 May 2027
Mikita Chalavach dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout17 May 2027
Pavel Makas gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Pavel Makas is on it.
Looking ahead17 May 2027
Minsk next, and one man in the Isloch dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Upbeat
Market19 Apr 2027
Only the photograph left for Ivan Yerokhin
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ivan Yerokhin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Isloch the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Isloch
Evgeniy Yudchits 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words at Isloch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikita Chalavach 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.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match17 Apr 2027
Three points for Isloch, 1‑0 the final word against Belshina in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“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.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Maxim Kovalevich was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.19. 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 dugout19 Apr 2027
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Ivan Palitsevich could afford to be generous.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Pavel Makas gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Pavel Makas is on it.
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Uneasy
Market22 Mar 2027
Ivan Yerokhin has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Isloch they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Isloch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Patsko 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.
Squad22 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 Isloch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
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.
Looking ahead22 Mar 2027
Slutsk next, and one man in the Isloch dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market22 Mar 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Vitaliy Zygmantovich has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Isloch.
Market22 Mar 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Looking ahead22 Mar 2027
Home comforts ahead for Isloch
Slutsk, position 13, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.
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Uneasy
Market8 Mar 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Lokomotiv Gomel waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Isloch is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match6 Mar 2027
At last: Isloch win one
8 matches without a win, and then this, against Slavia Mozyr. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Market8 Mar 2027
The Minsk deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Alexandr Svirskiy reports back to Isloch with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andrey Klimovich commits to Isloch for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Isloch
Evgeniy Yudchits and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
2 academy graduates step up at Isloch
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.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
Isloch asked and Korona said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market8 Mar 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pavel 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andrei Chalavach is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Uneasy
Market1 Mar 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Isloch people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Window shuts: 0 in, 0 out at Isloch
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 0 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market1 Mar 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Isloch they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Isloch
Evgeniy Yudchits 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.
Transfer targets1 Mar 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Nikita Patsko 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.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pavel Shevchenko, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead1 Mar 2027
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Alexandr Butko’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Isloch needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Isloch would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Uneasy
Market22 Feb 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Isloch have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market22 Feb 2027
“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 Isloch, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Isloch
Evgeniy Yudchits 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.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Isloch asked and Vitebsk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market22 Feb 2027
The phone has started ringing about Ivan Yerokhin again, and this time the name on the line is Lokomotiv Gomel. Isloch are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Isloch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikita Patsko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Isloch have made the call to Korona. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Evgeniy Yudchits trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout22 Feb 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.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Isloch lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Isloch may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market8 Feb 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Neman waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Isloch is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market8 Feb 2027
“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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Isloch say no — this time
The offer from Slonim for Ivan Khovalko 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Isloch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikita Patsko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Isloch
Nikita Fadeev 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Lokomotiva Zagreb have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
29 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Isloch lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Everything agreed with Jablonec, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Isloch asked and Torpedo Moscow said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Isloch
Sergey Volkov 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
The name of Alexandr Svirskiy has come up in conversations Isloch were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Nikita Patsko 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.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Vitebsk have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout1 Feb 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.
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Uneasy
Match23 Nov 2026
Isloch sink to position 13
5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Isloch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 51 days on the sidelines for Yan Dragun, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivan Khovalko, and the manager let it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Pavel Shevchenko 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.
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Uneasy
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Isloch is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Isloch
Evgeniy Yudchits 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Nikita Patsko 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 89% of everything Isloch earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Timofey Martynov
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Timofey Martynov has come out of that comparison in the side, and Isloch have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Mikita Chalavach 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
Match19 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Isloch
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Sergey Volkov pops up at the right end — 7.68
7.68, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Market21 Sep 2026
So close: Ivan Yerokhin’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Torpedo-BelAZ moved on, Ivan Yerokhin reports back to Isloch, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Isloch
Evgeniy Yudchits and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Sep 2026
It needed Alexandr Butko to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Molodechno, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
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.” Ivan Palitsevich chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Yuriy Kravchenko 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Crisis
Market14 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Torpedo-BelAZ waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Isloch is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match12 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Isloch
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Isloch close the window on a squad of their own making
18 in and 8 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Isloch they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
No thanks: Boubou Diallo rejects the move
Isloch had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Dukla Prague, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Boardroom14 Sep 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Isloch against Gomel
1‑3 to Gomel, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Isloch asked and Sparta Prague said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yahor Yablonski 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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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Isloch, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
Isloch say no — this time
The offer from Slutsk for Ivan Yerokhin 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Isloch
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Isloch are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Yan Pikuza has agreed terms with Belshina for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Isloch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market31 Aug 2026
The name of Ivan Khovalko has come up in conversations Isloch were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slavia Prague have kept their man, and Isloch go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Evgeniy Yudchits, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Isloch
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
Isloch out of the cup
Naftan ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad24 Aug 2026
1 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Ivan Yerokhin hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Isloch can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Isloch
Evgeniy Yudchits and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Jablonec have kept their man, and Isloch go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Nikita Patsko 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Isloch caught on 95 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Neman scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.