The Slonim Herald
Boardroom8 Mar 2032
9 points gone: Slonim in administration
This is the morning a town finds out what the accounts have been doing while it watched the football. The debt gets written down to something payable, and the football pays for it in points.
Market8 Mar 2032
Luis Romero asks to leave Slonim
“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.
Boardroom8 Mar 2032
The Slonim board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Squad8 Mar 2032
Bogatyr Razhbudinov stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Bogatyr Razhbudinov and Slonim agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2032
Tempers go at Slonim
Dmitriy Vechorko 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.
Boardroom8 Mar 2032
10 academy players handed senior numbers at Slonim
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Boardroom8 Mar 2032
The owner puts $132.8K into Slonim
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
Squad8 Mar 2032
Christoph Ochrana 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.
Market8 Mar 2032
Slonim promote Vadzim Ihnatovich from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vadzim Ihnatovich 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.
In brief
- Market Yahor Nekhaichik steps up from the Slonim academy
- Market Maksim Shikavka steps up from the Slonim academy
- Match Slonim find a way past Orsha