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Uneasy
Squad7 Jun 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Sevastopol will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market7 Jun 2027
Maxim Konyaev hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sevastopol can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Jun 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 Sevastopol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Squad17 May 2027
Artem Stepanovich 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 May 2027
Dawid Fornalik 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.
Squad17 May 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Match5 Apr 2027
37 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad5 Apr 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 Sevastopol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at Sevastopol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dawid Fornalik 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.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
“I watch every Sevastopol game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Torpedo Vladimir runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad5 Apr 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market5 Apr 2027
12 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad22 Mar 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 Sevastopol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Lev Potapov pulls a muscle — 15 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Sevastopol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dawid Fornalik 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
Match13 Mar 2027
No end in sight to Lokomotiv Gomel's wait for a win
8 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 29 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
No sign of nerves from Anton Korzun at 18 — 7.80
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Anton Korzun did not need any: 7.80, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Yuri Yablonski 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Egor Yuschenko, and the manager let it.
Loan watch15 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Bumprom Gomel 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.
Market15 Mar 2027
Uni-X Labs are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Lokomotiv Gomel will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.