Marked for Uladzislau Martynovich
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 16 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Baranovichi is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The instruction came from the boardroom and the dugout did not agree with it. Somebody will go, the fee will be called good business, and the manager will spend the season rebuilding around the space.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Timur Pukhov 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 Baranovichi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Baranovichi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vasiliy Vasilenko 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
123% of the income goes out in wages at Baranovichi
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Egor Lapun 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 Baranovichi, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market2 Nov 2026
The clock does Denis Shpakovskiy’s negotiating for him
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Baranovichi could ask drops and the wages Denis Shpakovskiy can ask rise.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Baranovichi lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market26 Oct 2026
Timur Pukhov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Baranovichi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Timur Pukhov 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vadim Balbukh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Egor Lapun 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 Egor Lapun trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market26 Oct 2026
2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Baranovichi money.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Baranovichi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market19 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vasiliy Vasilenko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Baranovichi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Timur Pukhov 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vadim Balbukh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
15 new faces, and Baranovichi are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Nikolay Ryabykh asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
38 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Baranovichi lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Baranovichi is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Timur Pukhov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vasiliy Vasilenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Alexey Semenov
“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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The clock does Vasiliy Vasilenko’s negotiating for him
2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Baranovichi could ask drops and the wages Vasiliy Vasilenko can ask rise.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Baranovichi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Baranovichi is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Timur Pukhov 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 Baranovichi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vadim Balbukh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 147% of everything Baranovichi 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market5 Oct 2026
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Baranovichi could get for him.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Stanislav Kendysh trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
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 Timofey Tkachev is on it.