Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lida they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Puzach 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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alfred Mazurich trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Lida could ask drops and the wages Dmitriy Vashkevich can ask rise.
Maxim Katsynel, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65
A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vladislav Vasilyuchek and Lida agree another 2 years.
Alexey Legchilin 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.
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Lida asked and Vitebsk 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 academy exists for exactly this morning. Stanislau Malevich 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.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andrei Noyok has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ivan Balanovich has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andrei Kislyak 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.