Andrei Laptev

Left Midfielder - Torpedo-BelAZ U20
16 Mar 2033
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Andrei Laptev

311 Edition

The Torpedo-BelAZ Post

12 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Ramazan Gadjimuradov puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Torpedo-BelAZ, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Mark Pereverzev has one foot out of the door

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

Market

Malachie Iboko Lisasi has said yes to Lokomotiv Gomel

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Torpedo-BelAZ have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Squad

15 days out for Andrei Laptev after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Torpedo-BelAZ will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Torpedo-BelAZ say no — this time

The offer from Liepaja for Arseniy Zhukovskiy was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

The dugout

Maxim Autko says Torpedo-BelAZ went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Savva Kotov

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Torpedo-BelAZ have done the hard part with Vitebsk, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

A falling-out at Torpedo-BelAZ

Vladislav Melko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

An offer of $64.0K for Artur Malievskiy

Torpedo-BelAZ have gone to BATE with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

In brief

Back issues
310 Edition

The Torpedo-BelAZ Post

5 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Vadim Arutyunyan 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 Torpedo-BelAZ can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Torpedo-BelAZ refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 34 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad

A fracture rules Andrei Laptev out for 22 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torpedo-BelAZ will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Vyacheslav Puzikov has said yes to Lokomotiv Gomel

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Torpedo-BelAZ have lost him in all but the paperwork.

The dugout

Lóránt Fazekas says Torpedo-BelAZ went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Vadim Arutyunyan 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 Torpedo-BelAZ this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Torpedo-BelAZ baulk at the price for Bobur Abdiholiqov

Dinamo Minsk wanted more than $36.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

A row about effort at Torpedo-BelAZ

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vladislav Melko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Home is on Samuel Bagin's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Torpedo-BelAZ are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief

309 Edition

The Torpedo-BelAZ Post

28 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Mark Pereverzev agrees terms with Gomel

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Torpedo-BelAZ people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad

29 days out for Andrei Laptev after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Torpedo-BelAZ will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Torpedo-BelAZ turn down Naftan for Matvey Svidinskiy

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

So close: Arseniy Zhukovskiy’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Molodechno moved on, Arseniy Zhukovskiy reports back to Torpedo-BelAZ, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Transfer targets

David Sangaré due for a Torpedo-BelAZ medical

Everything agreed with Neman, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Match

Nobody wants to play Torpedo-BelAZ right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Tempers go at Torpedo-BelAZ

Vadim Churilov 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.

Transfer targets

No deal for Artur Malievskiy at that price

Torpedo-BelAZ offered $64.0K; BATE said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Alexandr Lomovitskiy 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.

In brief