From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match27 Dec 2027
Isloch sink to position 13
26 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market27 Dec 2027
Adeola Olaleye 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.
Squad27 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Ivan Yerokhin
“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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Uneasy
Squad13 Dec 2027
Ivan Yerokhin: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Isloch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad13 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Bogdan Tsybrov
“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.
Squad13 Dec 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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Uneasy
Squad22 Nov 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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Sergey Volkov 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 Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market22 Nov 2027
The name of Nurdoolot Stalbekov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Match6 Sep 2027
Isloch sink to position 13
24 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market6 Sep 2027
Adeola Olaleye 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Ivan Yerokhin: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Isloch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Adeola Olaleye
“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.
Squad6 Sep 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.
Match4 Sep 2027
Isloch and Minsk cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Minsk came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market6 Sep 2027
The name of Alexandr Butko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Isloch that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Market6 Sep 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Oleg Veretilo may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Crisis
Match8 May 2027
6 matches without a win for Isloch
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Isloch are no longer polite ones.
Squad10 May 2027
“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.
Match8 May 2027
Beaten 2-3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Nikita Patsko
“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.
Loan watch10 May 2027
“I did not go to Dinamo Brest to sit and watch. I want to come back to Isloch and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.
Squad10 May 2027
Alexandr Butko 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 Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Market15 Feb 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Alexandr Butko 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Ivan Yerokhin
“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
Squad8 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andrey Makarenko commits to Isloch for another 3 years.
Squad8 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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Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 45 days on the sidelines for Arkhip Naumchik, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad11 Jan 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The name of Arseniy Zhukovskiy keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 44 days on the sidelines for Andrey Klimovich, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market2 Nov 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 182% 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.