The Lokomotiv Gomel Herald
Squad23 Aug 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Vlad Davydov
24 goals and a season average of 7.51 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Vlad Davydov scores twice — 8.93
Two goals and a mark of 8.93 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market23 Aug 2027
Only the photograph left for Yuri Kendysh
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yuri Kendysh will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lokomotiv Gomel the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Ivan Dig due for a Lokomotiv Gomel medical
Everything agreed with Baranovichi, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Match21 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Lokomotiv Gomel
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Lokomotiv Gomel
Vlad Davydov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match21 Aug 2027
Lokomotiv Gomel come up short against Ostrovets
Ostrovets left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Lokomotiv Gomel rebuffed over Arseniy Asonov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Volna Pinsk have kept their man, and Lokomotiv Gomel go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Lokomotiv Gomel
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aliaksandr Rios was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Squad a squad player out for 26 days
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Boardroom Lokomotiv Gomel counting the cost