Marked for Valery Hleb
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match24 Jun 2028
No end in sight to Lokomotiv Gomel's wait for a win
23 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lokomotiv Gomel has to find a result from somewhere.
Boardroom26 Jun 2028
Pressure builds in the Lokomotiv Gomel boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Valery Kendysh 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.
Match24 Jun 2028
Uni-X Labs left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom26 Jun 2028
The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.
Squad26 Jun 2028
The medical room confirms 27 days on the sidelines for Ivan Nekhaichik, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom26 Jun 2028
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
Squad26 Jun 2028
“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.
Squad26 Jun 2028
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match5 Jun 2027
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Lokomotiv Gomel are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Jun 2027
There were 11 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Jun 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 Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maksim Signevich 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.
Match5 Jun 2027
Slonim left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Vitaliy Kislyak out for 19 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lokomotiv Gomel will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market29 Mar 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Yahor Skavysh 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“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.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Ostrovets to sit and watch. I want to come back to Lokomotiv Gomel and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
The numbers do not look good at Lokomotiv Gomel
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
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Crisis
Squad8 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Vitaliy Kislyak out for 40 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lokomotiv Gomel will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market8 Mar 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Valery Kendysh commits to Lokomotiv Gomel for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Valery Kendysh 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.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Lokomotiv Gomel
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match6 Mar 2027
0‑2 to Slonim, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market8 Mar 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yahor Ihnatovich is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Valery Palitsevich is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.