The BATE Gazette
Squad18 Jan 2027
Raman Kendysh damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at BATE
Alisson 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at BATE training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kojo Peprah Oppong 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Pavel Ihnatovich signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pavel Ihnatovich commits to BATE for another 4 years.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Tom Louchet knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at BATE, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Yuriy Kovalev gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Yuriy Kovalev is on it.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Pavel Ihnatovich
- The dugout The manager makes Artem Rakhmanov a promise