Ihar Laptev

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The Lokomotiv Gomel Herald

5 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Aliaksandr Bykau has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lokomotiv Gomel they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

Lokomotiv Gomel make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Lokomotiv Gomel have 4 straight wins of it.

The dugout

Aliaksandr Bykau frozen out at Lokomotiv Gomel

This is not rotation. Aliaksandr Bykau has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Lokomotiv Gomel is pretending otherwise.

The dugout

Jakob Apalset Vassbø: 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.” Lokomotiv Gomel have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

As if he never left: Enriko Kajari returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Enriko Kajari is a Lokomotiv Gomel player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Squad

Words exchanged at Lokomotiv Gomel

Mikhail Molchanov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom

8 academy graduates step up at Lokomotiv Gomel

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Transfer targets

BATE tell Lokomotiv Gomel: Ivan Yablonski is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Mikhail Molchanov

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief