The Belshina Courier
Market13 Aug 2029
Innokentiy Trofimov 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 Belshina can pretend not to have heard.
Market13 Aug 2029
Gleb Loyko attracts admirers
The name of Gleb Loyko has come up in conversations Belshina were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Tempers go at Belshina
Pavel Prishivalko 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.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
Nobody could get near Pavel Seleznev
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Gabriel Arango gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Gabriel Arango has just signed for Belshina, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Words at Belshina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Golub 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.
Squad13 Aug 2029
No hiding place for Ilya Vikhrov
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ilya Vikhrov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
Ninety minutes of Egor Gordeichuk at his very best
Marked 8.03. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Belshina.
Market13 Aug 2029
Belshina sign Gabriel Arango, one for the future
Gabriel Arango is 19, and Belshina have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
In brief
- Match Gleb Loyko rescues a point for Belshina
- Player ratings Anton Signevich changes it off the bench
- Market Belshina put Yahor Korzun up for sale