The Slutsk Post
Squad6 Mar 2028
Alexey Berdnikov damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market6 Mar 2028
Ivan Mikhnyuk has said yes to Volna Pinsk
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Slutsk have lost him in all but the paperwork.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
Bartłomiej Krasiewicz keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Slutsk may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
An order from above at Slutsk: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
Slutsk tie Uladzimir Bykau down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Words exchanged at Slutsk
Alexey Berdnikov 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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Slutsk
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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Words at Slutsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vladislav Fedosov 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.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
Andrey Kren was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
In brief
- Transfer targets Slutsk rebuffed over Dmitry Radikovskiy
- Market Ivan Palitsevich steps up from the Slutsk academy
- Market Slutsk promote Kirill Yablonski from within