The Lokomotiv Gomel Herald
Market30 Jul 2029
Maxim Mardas 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 Lokomotiv Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Nikolay Mirskiy in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2029
Door shut on Hleb Martynovich
Lokomotiv Gomel asked and Dinamo Minsk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout30 Jul 2029
The manager makes an example of Maxim Voronkovich
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Ivan Klimovich 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.
Player ratings30 Jul 2029
Nikolay Mirskiy was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings30 Jul 2029
The afternoon belonged to Makar Chizhov
A mark of 7.31, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout30 Jul 2029
Maxim Voronkovich dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout30 Jul 2029
When it matters, Valery Gordeichuk 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.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Match Point won or two lost for Lokomotiv Gomel?
- Squad Stanislau Malevich, 15, gets his chance