Marked for Raman Savitski
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dzmitry Malevich
44 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lokomotiv Gomel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market22 Feb 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Slutsk waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Lokomotiv Gomel is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
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 The request is on a desk at Lokomotiv Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Everything agreed with Gomel, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad22 Feb 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 Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slavia Mozyr have kept their man, and Lokomotiv Gomel go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stanislau Zhavnerchik 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 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Dzmitry Malevich for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Lokomotiv Gomel will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Yahor Arlouski and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aliaksandr Klimovich, and the manager let it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
21 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Wages swallow 92% of the Lokomotiv Gomel income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 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 Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stanislau Zhavnerchik was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dzmitry Laptev, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Uladzimir Pavlov out for 21 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lokomotiv Gomel will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Yahor Korzun and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Uladzimir Pavlov out for 28 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lokomotiv Gomel will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stanislau Zhavnerchik was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Raman Savitski and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I watch every Lokomotiv Gomel game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Lida runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Yahor Arlouski 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Raman Arlouski
“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
Squad31 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Market31 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The deal with Neman 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Lokomotiv Gomel asked and Gomel 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 terraces31 Aug 2026
He is 23 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.
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 Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.20, and no argument anywhere in the ground.