Marked for Yauhen Malevich
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market11 Oct 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Molodechno, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Maxim Yablonskiy 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Yassine Bara 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.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Sergey Oliynyk
“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.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
When it matters, Egor Korzun 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.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Kirill Laptev 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market27 Sep 2027
Only the photograph left for Danila Tretyak
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Danila Tretyak will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Molodechno the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
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Squad27 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Molodechno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Molodechno
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stanislav Atrashkevich was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets27 Sep 2027
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Molodechno will try again when the window opens; Orsha may not be selling by then.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yauhen Malevich and Molodechno agree another 3 years.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad20 Sep 2027
Pavel Pampukha and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Yassine Bara 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.
Transfer targets20 Sep 2027
The clock did what Slavia Mozyr would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladislav Belashevich, and the manager let it.
Market20 Sep 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Pavel Pampukha signs something — a contract at Molodechno or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
Pavel Lopatin has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Molodechno will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.