Viktar Sivakov

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Marked for Viktar Sivakov

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The Lokomotiv Gomel Herald

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The mood at Lokomotiv Gomel has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

Vadzim Stasevich breaks a bone — 41 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tempers go at Lokomotiv Gomel

Fedor Mironov 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

Lokomotiv Gomel lose Viktar Sivakov

26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 99% 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.

Transfer targets

Lokomotiv Gomel try to borrow Nikita Matusevich

Torpedo-BelAZ have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mikita Savitski

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mikita Savitski, and the manager let it.

Market

The Vadzim Stasevich question follows Lokomotiv Gomel around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Vadzim Stasevich’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Vadzim Nekhaichik knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vadzim Nekhaichik trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

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The Lokomotiv Gomel Herald

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Lokomotiv Gomel boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

76 days out for Vadzim Stasevich after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Lokomotiv Gomel will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout

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Squad

Fedor Mironov 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 Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vitaliy Skavysh 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

Lokomotiv Gomel lose Viktar Sivakov

61 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief