The Molodechno Sentinel
Market11 Dec 2028
Vladislav Konovalov asks to leave Molodechno
“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.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Tempers go at Molodechno
Pavel Pampukha 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.
Market11 Dec 2028
One of our own: Mikalai Kendysh joins the Molodechno first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mikalai Kendysh is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Dec 2028
Yan Nekhaichik steps up from the Molodechno academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yan Nekhaichik 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.
Market11 Dec 2028
Valery Chalavach steps up from the Molodechno academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Valery Chalavach 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.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Krasimir Kapov 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.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Pietro Bottausci signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pietro Bottausci commits to Molodechno for another 4 years.
The dugout11 Dec 2028
Krasimir Kapov asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Nazar Terpugov is doing the arithmetic
The table has started to be checked before the results are in, and that is always the tell. Nobody at Molodechno says the word out loud, and everybody in the building is thinking it.
In brief
- The dugout Oleg Tyulkov has been promised minutes
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Egor Yuschenko