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Steady
Market5 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexandr Shvedchikov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around BATE the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and BATE know it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at BATE
Luciano Jachfe 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.
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Steady
Match23 Sep 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and José Miguel Reyes obliged against Minsk. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is BATE.
Market28 Sep 2026
Ilya Raschenya has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around BATE they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BATE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Luciano Jachfe 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.76 on the card, and the BATE support went home talking about one name.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Luciano Jachfe has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at BATE 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ilya Raschenya knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at BATE, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market28 Sep 2026
3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what BATE could get for him.