Ivan Yablonski

Striker - BATE U18
29 Jun 2029
Friday
Process

Marked for Ivan Yablonski

118 Edition

The BATE Gazette

30 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

A European night to remember for BATE

1‑1 against Go Ahead Eagles, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

The dugout

Danila Sokol frozen out at BATE

This is not rotation. Danila Sokol has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at BATE is pretending otherwise.

The dugout

Alexandr Svirskiy says BATE went back on their word

“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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Yan Shumskiy

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yan Shumskiy will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around BATE the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for BATE — 7.56

1 for Fawaz Abdullahi, marked 7.56, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

Fawaz Abdullahi wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at BATE can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

Nikita Neskoromnyi 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 BATE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Fawaz Abdullahi 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

Danila Sokol 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

Back issues
92 Edition

The BATE Gazette

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Dnepr Mogilev end the BATE run at 25

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 25 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Squad

The knee: Maxim Maximov out for 29 days

29 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. BATE lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

Ivan Yablonski says BATE went back on their word

“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.

Market

Pavel Dubovskiy has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around BATE they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

BATE come up short against Dnepr Mogilev

Dnepr Mogilev left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Tempers go at BATE

Egor Kress 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

Fawaz Abdullahi 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.

Boardroom

Inquest at BATE

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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Vitaliy Arlouski left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief