Marked for Ivan Stasevich
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad21 Dec 2026
82 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.
Squad21 Dec 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Artem Petrenko
“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 dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Akim Belokhonov's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Market21 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Valeriy Potorocha signs something — a contract at Baranovichi or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
18 days out for Ivan Stasevich after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Baranovichi will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market26 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Fedor Lebedev
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Fedor Lebedev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Baranovichi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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
Too much change too quickly at Baranovichi
15 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Akim Belokhonov's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Daniil Shapko
“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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market19 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Baranovichi have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
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.
Market19 Oct 2026
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ivan Zhorov and Baranovichi agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
32 days out for Ivan Stasevich after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Baranovichi will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market12 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Artem Petrenko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Petrenko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Baranovichi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Egor Klimovich is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ruslan Korzun has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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 dugout12 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Maksym Shevchenko has written the date down.
Market12 Oct 2026
The clock does Fedor Lebedev’s negotiating for him
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Baranovichi could ask drops and the wages Fedor Lebedev can ask rise.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Ivan Stasevich out for 39 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Baranovichi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market5 Oct 2026
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.
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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 140% 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
“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.
Market5 Oct 2026
3 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.