Thomas Prass

Left Midfielder - Belshina
16 Nov 2028
Thursday
Process

Marked for Thomas Prass

120 Edition

The Belshina Courier

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Pavel Seleznev asks to leave Belshina

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Belshina

Pavel Prishivalko 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.

Squad

Words at Belshina training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Golub 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.

Squad

Yuriy Kozlov 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.

Boardroom

No signings allowed at Belshina

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

Squad

Thomas Prass wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Belshina know it.

In brief

Back issues
94 Edition

The Belshina Courier

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The wait goes on for Belshina

4 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.

Market

Aiden Zammit comes home

The shirt still fits. Aiden Zammit is back at Belshina, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Squad

Pavel Prishivalko in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Belshina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Belshina training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pavel Seleznev 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.

Boardroom

195% of the income goes out in wages at Belshina

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Artem Zimin

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Alexandr Kuchinskiy

A mark of 7.50, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Market

Belshina buy the years ahead of Thomas Prass

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad

Nikita Solonovich 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.

In brief