The Osipovichi Post
Market29 Mar 2027
Maxim Zhabitskiy has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Osipovichi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Osipovichi
Vladimir Dziov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Denis Ssorin
“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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Valeriy Kumalagov 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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Boris Parsegov 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 Osipovichi, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market29 Mar 2027
The Ilya Tishurov talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Osipovichi know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market29 Mar 2027
The clock does Maxim Zhabitskiy’s negotiating for him
4 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Osipovichi could ask drops and the wages Maxim Zhabitskiy can ask rise.
Market29 Mar 2027
Osipovichi put Artem Yegorov up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Artem Yegorov may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Maxim Zhabitskiy is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
In brief
- Looking ahead Osipovichi host Baranovichi
- Squad Kirill Zakharov has settled at Osipovichi
- The dugout Viktar Gordeichuk keeps his manager's vote