Marked for Artem Rios
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Artem Rios 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Nikolai Lapin is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Uladzimir 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
Artem Rios 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.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
31 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Lokomotiv Gomel lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad19 Oct 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.
Squad19 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.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Uladzislau Hryshyn damages knee ligaments — 38 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 38 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ruslan Korzun 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Igor Alenin, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market28 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lokomotiv Gomel is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Eduard Gorshkov 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Uladzimir Zhavnerchik was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market28 Sep 2026
The shop window has Artem Rios in it
Lokomotiv Gomel have let the market know Artem Rios can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Yahor Kavalyou 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The training reports on Ihar Korzun are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
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Steady
Market21 Sep 2026
The offer from Orsha for Yauhen Balanovich was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Lokomotiv Gomel asked and BATE said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Lokomotiv Gomel will try again when the window opens; Lida may not be selling by then.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Mikita Makas 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
Artem Rios gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Artem Rios is on it.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Lokomotiv Gomel people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market14 Sep 2026
“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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 1 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad14 Sep 2026
14 goals and a season average of 7.45. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market14 Sep 2026
The offer from Levadia for Uladzimir Zhavnerchik was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The deal with Lida 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Nikita Kukhtik 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Rodion Karpov. 2‑1 against Bumprom Gomel, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Akron come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Lokomotiv Gomel did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Lokomotiv Gomel have done the hard part with Neman, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market7 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Vadzim Pavlov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vadzim Pavlov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lokomotiv Gomel the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. BATE have kept their man, and Lokomotiv Gomel go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Vitaliy Savitski 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.
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Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
The match ball belongs to Artem Rios, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Yuri Signevich out for 51 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Nikita Kukhtik arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Nikita Kukhtik has, at Lokomotiv Gomel, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, and a scan that said otherwise. He goes back to Arsenal Dzerzhinsk; Lokomotiv Gomel go back to the market; and both will insist there is no story here.
Match29 Aug 2026
6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 10.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match12 Aug 2026
1‑2 against Isloch, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad17 Aug 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Torpedo-BelAZ, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 10.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match15 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 9 goals between Lokomotiv Gomel and Volna Pinsk, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Eduard Gorshkov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match15 Aug 2026
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
The match ball belongs to Rodion Karpov, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match1 Aug 2026
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 98th minute. Orsha will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Match1 Aug 2026
Orsha made Lokomotiv Gomel work for it, but the scoreboard read 5‑4 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Rodion Karpov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.99. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad3 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Maksim Hleb and Lokomotiv Gomel agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikolai Lapin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
One of those days for Artem Rios
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.86, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Lokomotiv Gomel have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.