Marked for Eduard Sivakov
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
Vladislav Kabachevskiy 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Belshina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vladislav Solanovich 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.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
Wages eat 226% of everything Belshina 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Belshina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market1 Feb 2027
The name of Ivan Veras has come up in conversations Belshina were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad1 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Ilya Vikhrov
“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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kirill Kudryavtsev and Belshina agree another 3 years.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Alexey Matlakh 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
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Steady
Market1 Feb 2027
$17.0K from Belshina for Eduard Sivakov. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Squad1 Feb 2027
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.
The terraces1 Feb 2027
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Eduard Sivakov was one of the reasons people came, and $17.0K does not replace that by itself.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Antonio Repić out for 28 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Stanislau Kavalyou 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
203% of the income goes out in wages at Lokomotiv Gomel
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Antonio Repić out for 79 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lokomotiv Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stanislau Kavalyou 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Neman to sit and watch. I want to come back to Lokomotiv Gomel and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
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Crisis
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from Neman for Yauhen Sivakov 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.
Squad31 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Bumprom Gomel left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stanislau Kavalyou 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Mikalai Pavlov
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Anton Makas and Lokomotiv Gomel agree another 3 years.
Market31 Aug 2026
Eduard Sivakov is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Lokomotiv Gomel has been clear about where Eduard Sivakov stands, which is more than many ever get.