Marked for Samuel Mak
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Gleb Zheleznikov 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Samuel Mak 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 Orsha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Taysir Adamchik trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
Artem Antonov: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Orsha have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Taysir Adamchik and Orsha agree another 3 years.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Orsha training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Egor Yuschenko 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.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Orsha may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dmitry Ivanov and Orsha agree another 3 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Gleb Zheleznikov 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market23 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Orsha is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad23 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 Orsha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Samuel Mak commits to Orsha for another 2 years.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Orsha training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Egor Yuschenko 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
147% of the income goes out in wages at Orsha
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Orsha
Samuel Mak 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market26 Oct 2026
Ivan Berezun has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Orsha they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Ivan Ageev has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Abdulaziz Lawal 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.
In brief
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Samuel Mak in a row with a teammate
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7 new faces, and Orsha are still learning each other
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No hiding place for Semyon Zaets
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market21 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 Orsha can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Orsha
Gleb Zheleznikov 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Orsha training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdulaziz Lawal 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.
In brief
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Squad
8 new faces, and Orsha are still learning each other
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Samuel Mak signs a new deal
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Market
Orsha shop where it costs nothing
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Market
The market said no: Temerlan Salimov stays put
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: HNK Rijeka have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Albert Lobotka. The answer from FK Senica has not changed — yet.
Market31 Aug 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Duda, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Juraj Sestak and FK Senica agree another 3 years.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Samuel Mak 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 FK Senica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The pass was always on for Juraj Bozenik
Chances created: 10. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.