Viktar Noyok

Central Defender - Lokomotiv Gomel
17 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Viktar Noyok

22 Edition

The Lokomotiv Gomel Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Lokomotiv Gomel

Nikita Kukhtik 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 147% of everything Lokomotiv Gomel 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.

Squad

Danil Maltsev 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Viktar Noyok

“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 dugout

Hleb Balanovich 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.

The dugout

Nikita Kukhtik has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Nikita Kukhtik has written the date down.

In brief

Back issues
21 Edition

The Lokomotiv Gomel Herald

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Only the photograph left for Maksim Savitski

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Maksim Savitski will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lokomotiv Gomel the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Lokomotiv Gomel

Nikita Kukhtik and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Raman Balanovich 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.

In brief

10 Edition

The Lokomotiv Gomel Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Lokomotiv Gomel

Nikita Kukhtik 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.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 101% 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.

Market

Still no ink between Lokomotiv Gomel and Evgeny Mamonov

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Lokomotiv Gomel, another week without a signature from Evgeny Mamonov.

The dugout

A door opens for Nikita Kukhtik

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Market

The shop window has Mikita Hleb in it

Lokomotiv Gomel have let the market know Mikita Hleb can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

The dugout

Maksim Bykau 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 Lokomotiv Gomel, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief