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Crisis
Squad24 Sep 2029
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings24 Sep 2029
Artem Signevich, 16, plays like he has been here for years — 7.61
A mark of 7.61 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 16-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad24 Sep 2029
Jamal Dibirgadjiev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match22 Sep 2029
Artem Signevich scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Vitebsk, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad24 Sep 2029
5 new faces, and Dnepr Mogilev are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market24 Sep 2029
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dnepr Mogilev, another week without a signature from Maxim Modulev.
Squad24 Sep 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yan Ihnatovich was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings24 Sep 2029
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Boardroom26 Mar 2029
The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Alexey Dunaev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings26 Mar 2029
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artem Volodkov, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Vadzim Kislyak chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Match24 Mar 2029
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Isloch will be the happier side with the point.
Looking ahead26 Mar 2029
Dinamo Brest next, and one man in the Dnepr Mogilev dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market26 Mar 2029
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kirill Kirilenko’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
Maxim Modulev 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 Dnepr Mogilev, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Market23 Oct 2028
“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.
Market23 Oct 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
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Squad23 Oct 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ivan Yakovlev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladislav Tarasenko, and the manager let it.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
Raman Shikavka has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad23 Oct 2028
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.