Marked for Valery Klimovich
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market8 Feb 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Lokomotiv Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
The terraces8 Feb 2027
Supporters turn on the $130.0K sale of Anton Palitsevich
He is going to Molodechno, the club has $130.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market8 Feb 2027
Baranovichi 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel 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.
Squad8 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 Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market11 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad11 Jan 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 Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Valery Bykau 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
Market14 Dec 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel 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.
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.
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Uneasy
Market2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel 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.
Squad2 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 130% of everything Lokomotiv Gomel 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.
Market2 Nov 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 watch2 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Lokomotiv Gomel, and 0 appearances in 12 say he has earned the hearing.
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Uneasy
Market21 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market21 Sep 2026
The name of Anton Korzun has come up in conversations Lokomotiv Gomel were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel 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.
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.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I watch every Lokomotiv Gomel game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Naftan runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Crisis
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
6 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. 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
Egor Yuschenko 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Alexandr Dmitryuk 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Bumprom Gomel, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Dmitryuk, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A first senior shirt for Ivan Kendysh
Every debut is a small story about the future: Ivan Kendysh, 15 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
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Uneasy
Market24 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Lokomotiv Gomel's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lokomotiv Gomel has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel 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.
Squad24 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.18 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Yan Chalavach
“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.
Match22 Aug 2026
It needed Andrei Martynovich to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Ostrovets, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market24 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Pavel Malevich has his answer from Lokomotiv Gomel; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Uneasy
Match12 Aug 2026
Isloch go through and Lokomotiv Gomel go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match15 Aug 2026
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Lokomotiv Gomel are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Alexandr Dmitryuk 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anton Palitsevich, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Valery Bykau 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.77. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Loan watch17 Aug 2026
“I did not go to BATE to sit and watch. I want to come back to Lokomotiv Gomel and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 1 matches say the rest.
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Crisis
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 46. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Valery Klimovich and Lokomotiv Gomel agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Egor Yuschenko 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alexandr Dmitryuk 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
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ruslan Rios, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market10 Aug 2026
He is 20, and nobody at Lokomotiv Gomel signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
1‑2 to Belshina, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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
“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.
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Valery Bykau 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Yauhen Shikavka and Lokomotiv Gomel agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market3 Aug 2026
Egor Signevich 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 Egor Signevich stands, which is more than many ever get.