The Lida Chronicle
Market8 Nov 2027
Only the photograph left for Nazar Kurak
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nazar Kurak will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lida the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Lida
Dmitriy Vashkevich 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.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
Wages eat 130% of everything Lida 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.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
When it matters, Maxim Katsynel plays
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.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
Vadim Ivanovskiy knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vadim Ivanovskiy trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market8 Nov 2027
Alexey Chernodarov placed on the list
Lida have made Alexey Chernodarov available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
In brief
- Squad A season on the outside for Plamen Spasov
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Dmitriy Vashkevich
- Squad Plamen Spasov is starting to look at home
- Squad Ivan Sivakov is out on the grass again