Ivan Skavysh

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Isloch
28 Feb 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ivan Skavysh

26 Edition

The Isloch Sentinel

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Evgeniy Yudchits hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Isloch can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Isloch lose Evgeniy Yudchits

20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Tempers go at Isloch

Evgeniy Yudchits 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.

Squad

Andrey Makarenko 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Nikita Fadeev plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Andrey Makarenko 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.

In brief

Back issues
24 Edition

The Isloch Sentinel

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Maxim Shamrin breaks a bone — 25 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Words exchanged at Isloch

Andrey Klimovich 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.

Squad

The step up is real for Artem Poluyanov

At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

The dugout

Nurdoolot Stalbekov gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Anton Shramchenko is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 33 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

The dugout

Ivan Khovalko is still paying for one afternoon at Isloch

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

18 Edition

The Isloch Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Adeola Olaleye is the young player of the season

Not a month, not a run of form — a whole season of being the best 20-year-old anybody in this division could put on a pitch. This is the honour that gets mentioned for the rest of his career.

Squad

Evgeniy Yudchits honoured for the season

The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Isloch had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.

Market

Alexandr Svirskiy is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Isloch is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Andrey Klimovich in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Isloch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Isloch

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikita Patsko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Anton Shramchenko gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

17 Edition

The Isloch Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Isloch

Andrey Klimovich 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Nurdoolot Stalbekov

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nurdoolot Stalbekov, and the manager let it.

Squad

Denis Voychenko 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.

The dugout

Yuriy Kravchenko has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Isloch 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.

The dugout

A door opens for Alexandr Svirskiy

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

The dugout

Ivan Skavysh knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ivan Skavysh trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief