Marked for Dzmitry Filipenko
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout22 Oct 2035
Yahor Klimovich: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Naftan have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad22 Oct 2035
Words exchanged at Naftan
Zakhar Korenkov 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.
Squad22 Oct 2035
A row about effort at Naftan
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yamoussa Camara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout22 Oct 2035
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Antonio Marchena is on it.
Market22 Oct 2035
Yahor Klimovich is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Naftan has been clear about where Yahor Klimovich stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market22 Oct 2035
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Dzmitry Filipenko leaves Naftan the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match20 Sep 2035
0‑3. There is a level at which football is played every single week by clubs that have been doing it for fifty years, and an evening like this is what it feels like to arrive there without having done it.
The dugout24 Sep 2035
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad24 Sep 2035
A falling-out at Naftan
Yamoussa Camara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Sep 2035
Words at Naftan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Grigoriy Martyanov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match23 Sep 2035
Slonim made Naftan work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout24 Sep 2035
The manager makes an example of Artem Krent
“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.
Player ratings24 Sep 2035
Marked 8.11 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Boardroom24 Sep 2035
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad24 Sep 2035
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dzmitry Filipenko and Naftan agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.