The Lida Chronicle
Market14 Sep 2026
Alexandr Poznyak is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lida is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 21 signed and 8 gone
That is the business done at Lida until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market14 Sep 2026
Ivan Golomako puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Lida, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Door shut on Evgeny Yegorov
Lida asked and Zenit Penza said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Alexandr Puzach 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Lida promote Viktar Bykau from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Viktar Bykau 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
Alexandr Poznyak gets it from the manager
“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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Talks stall between Lida and Alexandr Poznyak
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The formation has left Ivan Golomako behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Lida will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
In brief
- Squad The dressing room has a star in it
- The dugout When it matters, Sergei Kislyak plays
- The dugout A door opens for Ruslan Gogniev