The Lokomotiv Gomel Herald
Market10 Aug 2026
Yahor Dragun puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Lokomotiv Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Vadzim Arlouski signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vadzim Arlouski and Lokomotiv Gomel agree another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Lokomotiv Gomel lose Artem Balanovich
41 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Lokomotiv Gomel
Vadzim Arlouski 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Lokomotiv Gomel against Volna Pinsk
0‑2 to Volna Pinsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Vadzim Hleb 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
No place for Vitaliy Rios in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Vitaliy Rios has his answer from Lokomotiv Gomel; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
The one thing Uladzimir Ihnatovich could not do
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Mikita Hleb runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Player ratings A day to forget for Maksim Gordeichuk
- Player ratings A day to forget for Yan Ihnatovich
- The terraces The stands have heard the Uladzimir Ihnatovich talk too