The Torpedo-BelAZ Post
Market8 Feb 2027
Nikita Matusevich agrees terms with Bumprom Gomel
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Torpedo-BelAZ people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market8 Feb 2027
Not going: Vadim Kiselev stays at Torpedo-BelAZ
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Spartak Myjava had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The paperwork begins on Luka Gagnidze
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Torpedo-BelAZ have done the hard part with Zenit, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Stanislau Sivakov
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Torpedo-BelAZ will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Torpedo-BelAZ
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Bykov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Door shut on Stanley Amon
Torpedo-BelAZ asked and Bayelsa United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Torpedo-BelAZ
Vadim Pobudey and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market8 Feb 2027
Kirill Skavysh steps up from the Torpedo-BelAZ academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kirill Skavysh 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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
No hiding place for Danila Zhulpa
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Danila Zhulpa, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout A promise honoured for Nikita Matusevich
- The dugout Grigoriy Martyanov has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Kirill Premudrov knocks on the manager’s door