The Lokomotiv Gomel Herald
Market8 Feb 2027
a squad player asks to leave Lokomotiv Gomel
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Real improvement from Egor Balanovich at Lokomotiv Gomel
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Egor Balanovich is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Dinamo Minsk tell Lokomotiv Gomel: Mikhail Alexandrov is not for sale
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 Lokomotiv Gomel
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Raman Malevich was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Yahor Martynovich
“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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
A loan move for Daniil Dushevskiy is in the works
Lokomotiv Gomel have made the call to Dinamo Minsk. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Lokomotiv Gomel ask about Egor Khralenkov
A loan enquiry to Dinamo Brest: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Lokomotiv Gomel ask about Vladislav Pulkach
A loan enquiry to Vitebsk: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Dzmitry Pavlov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Lokomotiv Gomel will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- Squad Vitaliy Hleb: “I am not a substitute”
- Squad The training reports on Egor Balanovich are not good
- The dugout Egor Korzun keeps his manager's vote